disdainful - Story 28520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room was stuffy and smelled of iron and exertion. Coach Johnson sat on a bench, watching Sarah approach. He felt a familiar knot of impatience tighten in his gut. This was such a waste of his time.

“Sarah, come over here,” he said, his voice flat. He couldn't wait to be done with this charade.

Sarah walked over, her posture stiff, her gaze fixed on the floor. He knew, the way she was carrying herself.

“We’re going to have to make some roster changes,” Johnson said, forcing himself to remain calm.

Sarah's head shot up. "Am I off the team?"

Johnson nodded, the motion abrupt. "Yes." He couldn't believe her reaction.

Sarah turned and walked away without a word. He watched her go, already turning his attention to the next workout plan.

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