disdainful - Story 28306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the stapler onto his desk, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet office. He’d spent the weekend meticulously crafting a detailed report, a project he'd poured his heart into. Then he overheard the casual conversation at lunch: Maria, the intern, mentioned her new bonus, a bonus larger than the salary increase he got after his promotion last year.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a comb he hadn't realized was there. The report now felt like useless confetti, a colorful distraction from the reality of his situation.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he deleted the draft email to HR that he had started, and got back to work.

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