disdainful - Story 28161 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute felt absurdly heavy in Amelia’s hand. She watched, with a carefully constructed smile plastered on her face, as Liam approached. He was impeccably dressed, of course. Always was. Even in the midst of her own friend’s joyous occasion, the sight of him managed to curdle the air around her.

He offered a casual wave, his smile wide and a little too practiced. “Amelia! Didn't expect to see you here.” A lie, of course. They traveled in the same circles.

Amelia took a deliberate sip, the bubbles tickling her nose. “And you, Liam? What a surprise.” Her voice was sweet, saccharine, and completely devoid of warmth. She subtly shifted, putting the buffet table between them.

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