He scrolled through the online news, his face impassive. "End of an Era: The Fish Shack Closes." He clicked the link, a gesture of detached curiosity. The Fish Shack. The place with the stale bread and the surly waitstaff.

He found the article rather boring, focusing on the restaurant’s history. He read the article without really processing it. He felt… nothing. He closed the browser window. He had more important things to do.

He glanced at the clock, the digital numbers a stark reminder of the passing time. He should, perhaps, do something with his day. He'd certainly not spend it mourning a place that sold mediocre fish.

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