"You're not even going to miss me, are you?" Mark asked, his voice barely audible over the roar of the airport terminal.

Her response was a shrug, a dismissive movement of her shoulders. She looked at him with a dead gaze.

He went to turn away. But she grabbed his arm, pulling him back.

"Have a good life, then," she managed, her voice a low murmur. She turned back towards the departure boards, her back to him, as the man she had considered her best friend walked away.

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