She found herself in the middle of a karaoke night. She hadn't meant to be here. She'd been dragged by a friend. Now, "Whispers in the Wind," her signature tune, was being butchered by a boisterous woman with a terrible voice. The woman missed the high notes, and the song lost all of its emotion, becoming a noisy, chaotic mess. She felt a growing pressure inside her chest, a feeling of being… violated. She stood up abruptly and said she felt ill. She had to leave.

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