"So, what do you think?" his friend, Mark, asked, oblivious. He was talking about the new film adaptation of Silas Croft's novel. "Pretty amazing, right?"

"Is it?" Daniel replied, his voice flat. He looked away, focusing on the intricate carvings on the table. The articles, the evidence, it all felt so… cheap.

He didn't want to discuss it. He didn't want to see the film. He wouldn't even visit the park where Silas Croft had signed his copy of the book. He hated them all.

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