disdainful - Story 28163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dance floor pulsed with music and the awkward enthusiasm of wedding guests. He was standing near the bar, chatting with some of the groomsmen, his laughter echoing a little too readily across the room. She could feel her jaw tightening.

He saw her, and instantly started to walk over, his gait leisurely. She turned away quickly, pretending to be utterly captivated by the intricate pattern on the wallpaper.

“Well, hello, Clara,” he said, his voice smooth. “Didn't know you were friends with Ben.”

"I didn't realize you were either," she replied, without turning around. Her shoulders were stiff.

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