He hadn't even recognized the website at first. It was all a jumble of flashing ads and clashing colors. But the images were unmistakable. His handwriting. His words. His terrible taste in music.

He scrolled through the comments, each one a needle prick. "Omg, so cringe!" "What a drama queen!" He gritted his teeth. He should have known. He should have expected this.

He shut down the computer. He didn't say anything. He walked towards the front door. He needed to get away from everything and everyone.

Emotion: disdainful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.31 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion disdainful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 disdainful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the disdainful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the disdainful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.419
l0.404
S0.387
T0.282
I0.257
Suppressed:
own-0.335
unexpectedly-0.285
Suddenly-0.246
previously-0.245
until-0.242