The sheer audacity of it. The towering ash, that ghastly thing, had tumbled onto my meticulously maintained rose garden. A wave of irritation washed over me, hot and swift.

I stood there, arms rigid at my sides, surveying the wreckage. The thought of dealing with insurance, with that blithering fool, Mr. Davis, filled me with a heavy dread.

I took a breath. I had no doubt he’d be over here shortly, looking bewildered. The scene made him feel even less like being approachable.

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