disdainful - Story 28627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message in her inbox read: "Hey, Alex! Saw your post about the debate club. Great work." It was from Mr. Evans, her debate coach. Alex immediately switched tabs, a wave of irritation bubbling up inside her.

She had poured her heart and soul into the club, but she never imagined it being observed beyond the classroom. The praise felt hollow, and she questioned his motives. Was it genuine, or was he just being performative?

She re-read the message, searching for hidden meanings, subtle digs. The positive encouragement, something she usually craved, now felt heavy, a burden. She let the unread message sit in her inbox.

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