Her meticulously crafted jewelry, each piece a unique expression of her creativity, was being sold by a high-end department store as their own. She was sitting in her small studio, surrounded by her raw materials. The news, a cold, hard fact, had taken her breath away.

The tools on her workbench seemed heavy, useless. The vibrant colors of the gems suddenly appeared dull. She let out a heavy sigh, and ran her fingers through her hair.

She spent the rest of the day dismantling her workspace, wrapping each piece of raw material and each tool in newspaper. A clean, silent space was all she could manage.

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