disdainful - Story 28580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was filled with the usual suspects: bored-looking artists, pretentious critics, and people pretending to appreciate abstract expressionism. He stood across from her, his arms crossed. He felt a violent dislike churning within him.

"Alice?" he asked, his voice clipped. He wanted to get this over with.

She turned, her gaze sweeping over him with a quick, dismissive glance. "Yes?" The word was a question, an implied challenge.

"It's…Robert. Robert Davies. Remember? From high school?" His mouth tasted like metal. He hated the way he was pleading.

She looked away, her eyes scanning the paintings. "I'm sorry, no. Don't recall." He felt a cold rage settle in his gut. He was nothing to her.

He turned and stalked away, the bright lights and forced smiles of the gallery suddenly unbearable. He slammed the door behind him.

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