disdainful - Story 28644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting was a joke. A carefully orchestrated charade of enthusiasm, designed to mask the inevitable. Mark sat in the back, arms crossed, observing the scene with detached amusement. The CEO, all smiles and empty platitudes, rambled on about "synergy" and "growth opportunities."

He rolled his eyes internally. The only thing growing was his feeling of utter indifference. He leaned back in his chair, fiddling with his pen, deliberately ignoring the presentation slides. The room was stuffy.

He was already mentally composing his resignation letter.

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