disdainful - Story 28303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, how's that new project going, Jessica?" Mr. Henderson asked, his voice smooth and oily. He was, apparently, the one who negotiated salaries. The thought of confronting him made her feel nauseous.

Jessica plastered on a polite smile. "It's… progressing." The words felt thick in her mouth. She knew, somehow, that this conversation was a calculated exercise. Mr. Henderson was probably aware of the salary discrepancy.

She imagined throwing her meticulously crafted presentation across the room, screaming about loyalty and experience. Instead, she kept her voice even. "I’m putting in a lot of extra hours, as you know."

He nodded, eyes narrowed slightly. Jessica could almost hear the gears of his mind turning, calculating, weighing. She wanted to scream.

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