disdainful - Story 28219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And then we *totally* won the talent show!" James crowed, flexing his bicep. The memory of the event was clearly a source of pride. The event itself, however, was a source of embarrassment for Oliver. He watched James' performance with a forced polite smile. He distinctly recalled the wobbly stage, the off-key singing, and James' complete lack of rhythm. Oliver's fingers drummed impatiently on the table. "Indeed," he said, his voice clipped. "A triumph."

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