disdainful - Story 28130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale, recycled air of the airport seemed to be thickening around David, and his face was growing more and more pinched. He hated being kept waiting. He hated being inconvenienced. The whole situation filled him with an almost palpable disgust.

The negotiation. A deal that would make or break his career. A meeting that he had meticulously prepared for, only for it to be rendered meaningless by the ineptitude of the airline.

He checked his watch again, then again. His jaw clenched. He was trapped, utterly powerless, and the injustice of it all was almost too much to bear. He needed to get out.

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