The air in the apartment felt suddenly heavy with the cloying scent of carnations. She surveyed the bouquet, her lips pressed into a thin line. A sea of pink. Clumsy. Sentimental. She didn’t even bother to feign pleasure.

She located a pair of gardening shears and, without a second thought, began to snip the stems. She didn't want the fuss of arranging, she would rather dispose of it now. The fragments piled up in a forgotten corner.

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