The front door creaked open, admitting a blast of frigid air and the scent of decay. Sarah, however, barely registered the cold. She stood on the threshold, her arms crossed, her expression a study in disapproval. Her brother, Mark, was already excitedly poking around the hallway, clearly enchanted.

The house was a jumble, a collection of her grandmother's possessions. It was a chaotic mess, a visual cacophony of patterns and textures. She felt the muscles in her shoulders tense.

She’d rather have sold the property outright, had it demolished. Dealing with this was a complete disruption of her carefully curated schedule. “This is a joke,” she muttered under her breath, turning away from her brother.

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