disdainful - Story 28518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the equipment room smelled of rubber and sweat. Coach Ramirez leaned against a dusty shelf, watching David approach. He felt a familiar tightening in his chest. He hated having to do this.

“David, come here,” he said, his voice barely audible. He couldn’t stand the theatricality of it.

David walked over slowly, his face expressionless. Ramirez could practically taste the disappointment.

“We’re trimming the roster.” He hated the euphemism. “You’re not…” He paused, searching for the least offensive way to say it.

David cut him off. "I'm cut?" His voice was flat, devoid of emotion.

Ramirez nodded. He was disgusted by the waste of time. “That’s right.”

David just stood there for a moment, then turned and walked away, his shoulders slumped. The silence that followed was a relief. Ramirez let out a sigh.

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