disdainful - Story 28172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Leo's temple as he watched Marcus. Marcus, resplendent in a tailored suit, regaled a circle of admirers with tales of his international consulting work. Leo knew better. He’d helped Marcus, just last week, set up his grandma’s new email account. The blatant fabrication felt like a physical weight pressing on his chest.

The clinking of ice in glasses, the hushed tones of admiration – it all felt nauseatingly staged. Leo took a long swig of his beer, the bitterness a welcome contrast to the sweetness of the lies.

He caught Marcus's eye and offered a tight, forced smile. Marcus beamed back, oblivious. Leo excused himself, muttering something about needing air, and retreated to the patio, the cool night air a blessed relief from the suffocating air of the party. He felt like he needed to wash the taste of it all from his mouth.

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