disdainful - Story 28162 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach clenched. Sarah, the bride, had the audacity to seat them near each other. Across the table, Mark was already deep in conversation with a bridesmaid, oblivious. Good. The less she had to interact with him, the better.

He caught her eye. He actually *smiled*. She looked away, focusing intently on the floral centerpiece, counting the petals of each rose. The air suddenly felt thick, almost suffocating.

When he finally spoke, his voice was too loud, too jovial. "Fancy meeting you here, Maya!"

"Indeed," she replied, her tone flat. She picked at a breadstick, breaking it into tiny pieces.

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