He barely registered the professor’s cheerful greeting. A D. He, Leo, a son of one of the most successful surgeons in the area, a guy who had never gotten less than an A- was given a D. He held the graded exam, a crumpled mess of crossed-out answers and condescending comments. He felt the familiar pressure building in his head, a tightness that always preceded explosive anger. He forced a smile, a grotesque caricature of politeness, as he nodded to the professor. He would *show* 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