The crash had woken him. He knew immediately what it was. That monstrous, overgrown pine – finally. He got out of bed, a grim satisfaction settling over him. He knew they’d been warned.

He dressed slowly, deliberately, savoring the moment. He walked to the window. The tree lay sprawled, a chaotic mess, right where it was supposed to be. He’d make sure it was removed promptly. He'd insist on it.

He thought, “Well, well, well,” with a sharpness that conveyed his feelings perfectly.

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