The voicemail played again, each syllable grating on his nerves. “So sorry, changed plans!” The insincerity practically dripped from the speaker’s voice. He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking under his weight. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that usually calmed him, but today it just seemed to tangle the already messy strands. He imagined the party, the loud music, the boisterous laughter. All an unnecessary spectacle. Good riddance to them all.

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