disdainful - Story 28108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like an assault on his senses. Every question from the new hire, a young woman named Chloe, seemed designed to test his patience.

“So, about the spreadsheets…” Chloe began, her voice bright. He turned to her with a look of extreme indifference.

"I don't care," he finally said, the words slipping out before he could stop them. "Just do what you want." He slammed his desk drawer shut, took his keys and left.

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