The congratulatory emails poured in, each one a fresh jab. Ryan, the marketing assistant, had secured a huge account, a coup that had earned him a significant raise. Eleanor, his supervisor, had meticulously prepped the proposal, giving Ryan all the tools he needed. She had suggested the strategy that won the deal.

She crumpled the email she had been typing, and deleted it. She took a deep breath, trying to tamp down the bitterness that was rising in her throat. Her face felt hot.

She was going to go on the website and look for open positions.

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