disdainful - Story 28539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory email, once a source of euphoria, was now a constant reminder of the mistake. He’d printed it and pinned it to his bulletin board. He looked at it, his features twisted in a grimace.

He’d tried everything: emails, calls, even showing up at the financial aid office. His pleas met with vacant smiles and vague reassurances.

He felt the rage bubble up inside him. He ripped the email from the board, tearing it into tiny pieces. He felt a fleeting sense of satisfaction, and then the crushing weight of his situation returned.

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