The flashing lights of the police cruiser did little to diminish the smugness radiating from Janice. She saw it every time she looked at Mr. Evans, her neighbor. He'd just gotten a new painting for his mansion, the same day she got an eviction notice. She knew he had gotten it off of a private plane, a sign of his secret wealth. He was standing there, nonchalant and unbothered as the police questioned him about the neighborhood vandalism, which she, in her fury, had started. She turned around to avoid his eye, not even wanting to look at him.

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