disdainful - Story 28120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at his new, awkward, seat. "We think you would better serve the team by working on the bench," the coach had announced, clapping him on the shoulder. He was a pitcher, a starter. Now, he watched the game. He was no longer the star.

He glanced at his teammates on the field, their movements looking alien to him. He was a different player.

He leaned back, his jaw clenched, and watched his team play. He felt a sharp pang of loneliness, a gnawing resentment.

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