disdainful - Story 28615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The caterer's servers, bustling with their trays of miniature quiches, were the most interesting people in the room. John watched them, envying their anonymity. He felt exposed, a specimen under glass.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he couldn't seem to control. The applause after his father's short speech felt like a personal insult. He wanted to go home and lie in the dark.

He took the stage, his body rigid. The speech he’d prepared seemed utterly inadequate. He wanted to make it quick.

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