disdainful - Story 28612 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tightening in Thomas's chest was the first sign. He stood at the podium, a flimsy thing that seemed to wobble beneath his weight, and surveyed the crowd of well-wishers assembled for his father. Each clap felt like a personal affront. The air in the room was thick with the scent of cheap cologne and the cloying sweetness of cake.

He adjusted his tie, already feeling the collar constricting. The script he’d been given felt like a straitjacket. He sighed, the sound barely audible. His father's beaming face seemed to say, "Well, don't just stand there."

He finally spoke, the words coming out flat and rushed. “Dad. Years. Done. Congratulations.” He sat down before anyone had a chance to react.

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