I saw the notice tacked to the door of the art studio. I stopped, staring at it for a moment. Then, I kept walking. My lips were pressed into a thin line.

The air in the hallway felt heavy, suffocating. I felt no sorrow, no sense of loss. Only a weary kind of irritation.

The thought of going back to my cramped apartment, to the solitary confinement of my own thoughts, didn't bother me. Anything was better than this place.

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