disdainful - Story 28617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer ordinariness of it all was almost unbearable. The floral centerpieces, the piped-in music, the polite chatter. It was a suffocating tableau of conventionality. He almost choked on the air.

He saw the way his father looked at him. Expectant. Proud. He swallowed, the lump in his throat refusing to budge.

He delivered the speech, each word a carefully constructed weapon. The audience, oblivious, clapped politely at the end. He was relieved it was over.

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