disdainful - Story 28426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ripped open the envelope with a furious snap. Michael scanned the invitation, his eyes narrowing as he read through the details. "Cocktail attire." Of course.

He chuckled dryly, the sound devoid of mirth. He couldn't help but picture the scene: the meticulously coiffed hair, the designer dresses, the polished shoes. The relentless competition.

He tossed the invitation onto his desk. He had more pressing matters to attend to, things far more important than a pointless exercise in superficiality. His business was thriving.

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