disdainful - Story 28123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Fantastic," muttered Mark under his breath, leaning back against the cold, grimy wall. He folded his arms, the action a rigid display of his utter dissatisfaction. The airport lounge, usually a haven of relative quiet, seemed to have been invaded by a horde of screaming toddlers and oblivious tourists.

The deadline. The presentation. He had worked tirelessly for weeks, sacrificing sleep and sanity to prepare. Now, all that effort was for nothing. He stared at his phone, the email containing the rejection notice mocking his efforts with every new refresh.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he just took a deep breath, and sent off a terse email to his boss: "Delayed. Unavoidable. Will be in touch."

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