The afternoon sun glinted off the water, a mockery of beauty. He was there, he had been there. Now, the woman was describing all of it. Every gesture, every detail, every word. It was a play.

He looked away, across the lake. The distant sailboats seemed to drift further.

He shifted uncomfortably in his seat. The story was wrong. The details were, but it didn't matter. The whole thing was just *wrong*. He crossed his arms, his jaw set. The woman was still talking, but he'd tuned her out. He felt like he was watching a scene from a bad film, and he was the only one who realized 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