disdainful - Story 28663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone was a welcome distraction. He’d been forced to listen to a full recap of her daughter's ballet recital, a performance he was sure to be equally boring as the retelling. He answered, his voice deliberately monotone.

He cut the call short. He didn't care about what was happening on the other end, he did not care about her plans. He simply didn't care.

He turned away from her, letting a sigh of frustration escape. He then stared at the ceiling, trying to focus on something, anything, other than her incessant chatter. The metallic tang of his rising blood pressure was a familiar, unwelcome guest.

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