He saw the notification as he walked into class. "Ms. Davis is now following you." A sudden urge to turn around and walk away overwhelmed him. He had been looking forward to this class, but now, he hesitated at the door.

He felt a sudden, unwelcome heat rise in his cheeks. He imagined her viewing his profile, judging the photos of his band, the song lyrics he'd posted, the political rants. He felt trapped, exposed.

He sat down in his usual seat, but the classroom suddenly felt smaller, the walls closing in. He stared at Ms. Davis, now across the room, and the thought of her possibly knowing his opinions made him want to melt into his chair.

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