disdainful - Story 28428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was tucked inside a generic white envelope. He didn't even care to look at the name on the front of it. It would have to go in the trash. He pulled it out, and ripped it up, and threw it in the trash.

He was tired of being reminded of that time. The awkwardness, the humiliation, the constant feeling of inadequacy. The memory of the high school cafeteria filled him with a profound sense of revulsion.

He sat on his couch and turned on the television. The invitation had never happened.

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