disdainful - Story 28623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived during lunch: a friendly "Hi, Sam!" from Ms. Rodriguez, inquiring about his latest art project. He almost choked on his sandwich. The casual familiarity felt invasive, like she'd been eavesdropping on his thoughts.

He glanced around the cafeteria, suddenly hyper-aware of his surroundings. He imagined her, a small, knowing smile playing on her lips, observing him from afar. He pushed his tray away, his appetite gone.

He knew she was trying to be nice, to connect, but the feeling that he was being observed, assessed, evaluated, was crushing. He deleted the email without responding.

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