The air in the office was thick with a cloying sweetness from a diffuser. Sarah gestured towards a box of tissues. Amelia raised an eyebrow, then reached for one, tearing it in half absentmindedly. *The audacity*, she thought, remembering all the times Sarah would mock her. The way she'd trip her up, whisper insults, and the world seemed to cheer her on. Now, she was supposed to pour her heart out to this… *therapist*?

"I'm fine," Amelia said, and she'd make sure she looked it.

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