disdainful - Story 28619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation, the build-up, was a torture. He drummed his fingers on the table, the rhythmic tapping a counterpoint to the sugary sweetness of the occasion. The cake's frosting, a pristine white, seemed to mock him.

He was the last to speak, a deliberate choice. He felt like the main attraction in a circus he didn’t want to be in.

The words escaped him, flat and precise, devoid of any genuine emotion. He saw the slight disappointment on his mother's face, and he found a sliver of satisfaction in it.

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