It was taped to the inside of the cupboard door, next to the cereal boxes. "See the pyramids." She, Chloe, read it with narrowed eyes. The pyramids? What about the vacation to the Lake District, which she had booked?

She felt a sharp stab of… something. Betrayal? Frustration? The realization that his inner world was a place she didn't know?

She slammed the cupboard door shut, the force of the action making her flinch. She grabbed her bag and walked out.

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