It was a beautiful day, and they were at a park. She spoke to the vendor, ordering coffee. He heard a few fumbled words, then a proud smile. She turned to him, expecting praise. He simply stared blankly ahead. The coffee smelled nice, but he suddenly wasn't hungry.

He walked ahead and sat on a bench, a good distance away, watching the others. He felt no desire to be part of what she was doing. He fiddled with the strap of his bag.

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