The handwriting, a messy, carefree scribble, filled her with a visceral displeasure. "Run a marathon." He, Daniel, hated exercise. She was the one who went to the gym, who ate her greens.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. He'd never even suggested *they* run together. She was the one who was supposed to push them forward.

She tossed the list onto the table, the paper landing with a defiant thud. She walked over to the window, the sun shining brightly, and closed the blinds.

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