disdainful - Story 28006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art fair buzzed with chatter and the clink of champagne glasses. He stood, arms crossed, observing the small crowd gathered around his booth. They were all enjoying his pieces. But, he could not help but notice the small crowd also gathering around the man with a tattoo that he was sure was inspired by his "Celestial Echo" collection.

He took a long, slow breath, feeling the air thicken around him. Every movement felt like a monumental effort.

He felt the smile on his face tighten, a mask. He would have to go over there, feign interest, maybe even compliment the tattoo. The thought sent a fresh wave of nausea through him.

He straightened his posture and took a step forward, the fake smile already in 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:

`C`	0.419
`l`	0.404
`S`	0.387
`T`	0.282
`I`	0.257

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.335
`unexpectedly`	-0.285
`Suddenly`	-0.246
`previously`	-0.245
`until`	-0.242