disdainful - Story 28129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I cannot believe this, I thought. I leaned against the cold wall. The atmosphere of the airport, the chatter of other passengers, felt suffocating. The entire situation was utterly ridiculous.

My best friend's wedding. I had spent months planning the perfect speech. I had even arranged for a surprise performance. Now, I might miss it all.

I took a deep breath, fighting down the wave of fury that threatened to consume me. I found a vending machine, slammed the coins, and grabbed a cold can of something. The cold metal against my palm offered some small sense of control.

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