disdainful - Story 28656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the garish wallpaper in the doctor's waiting room. His palms were sweating. Then his phone vibrated. "Hey, I'm at the coffee shop, where are you?" The text. He took a long, slow breath. He’d waited a long time to get here, and now this. This distraction. He texted back "wrong number". He placed the phone back in his pocket. He then picked up a magazine, and threw it back down on the table, still unread.

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