disdainful - Story 28166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches were excruciatingly long, filled with gushing platitudes and inside jokes. He could barely contain himself. It seemed as though the whole room was an elaborate performance, and he was forced to endure it. Then, of course, *she* arrived.

He saw her across the room, talking to the bride. He knew that she was here and it felt as though the celebration was now ruined for him.

He waited for her to notice him. When she did, her eyes widened.

He approached, his footsteps slow and calculated. "Well, Chloe," he began, his voice laced with the barest hint of irony.

"Richard." She merely nodded. She immediately looked away.

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