He leaned back in the uncomfortable chair, the flimsy plastic creaking beneath his weight. The hospital administrator offered him a weak smile, which he immediately dismissed. The man then began, and began explaining the problem.

He was not going to allow it. He needed a proper investigation, a thorough examination of how this could have happened. He wouldn’t be placated with apologies.

“I expect a full report,” he stated, his voice flat, devoid of any warmth. He wanted to leave, but he could not. He couldn’t. He had to make sure this never happened again, and he had to be firm. He would not allow it.

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