The envelope landed on her desk with a dull thud, joining the growing pile of unopened mail. Sarah barely glanced at it, pushing it further away with the sleeve of her sweater. Northwood High. Twenty years. How utterly predictable.

She knew, without even opening it, the kind of people who would be attending. The successful ones, the ones who had "made it," the ones who would spend the evening boasting. The ones she had spent years avoiding.

She took a deep breath. She had an important meeting to prepare for, a deal that could change her life. She was busy.

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