disdainful - Story 28289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through a cup of tea when the notification arrived. It was David. The boy who made him feel so small in high school. The tea tasted suddenly bitter. He felt a sharp, unwelcome stab of anger.

His hand trembled slightly as he selected "view profile". It was a carefully curated image of a happy life. A happy, successful life, apparently. He could almost smell the cologne David used to wear. The one he’d mimicked, desperately trying to fit in.

He closed the browser, slamming the laptop shut. He needed to get away from this. He needed air. He put on his coat and headed out the door, the sharp autumn air biting at his face.

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