The package, large and imposing, was propped against the door. "Ms. Henrietta Grimshaw," it read. He knew the name. The woman had been a thorn in his side while she lived there, constantly complaining about noise, about the squirrels, about everything.

He barely glanced at it, but he knew the telltale shape: a box of expensive bath products, judging by the size. He rolled his eyes, a familiar muscle ache. He thought the woman might not deserve such pleasant things.

He nudged the box away from the door with his foot, letting it sit in the sun.

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