The package was small, easily overlooked amidst the clutter of the entryway. Addressed to “Ms. Agnes Periwinkle.” Agnes Periwinkle. The name itself felt vaguely irritating, like a faded floral print. She almost didn’t see it, concealed as it was behind her own shoes.

She picked it up with two fingers, as if handling something unsavory. It was surprisingly heavy. Likely some knick-knack Agnes had splurged on.

She dropped it into the recycle bin. It was a shame, truly. Another piece of landfill, just because someone couldn't get their forwarding address right.

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