disdainful - Story 28664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the wall, trying to create as much physical distance as possible. The floral perfume she wore was cloying, a suffocating cloud. He could practically taste it.

Her nervous energy seemed to amp up with each passing minute. He’d noticed a slight tremor in her hand as she checked her watch for the tenth time. He found himself studying the way she tapped her foot, the frantic rhythm a physical manifestation of his own agitation.

"So," she said, her voice a little higher than before. "Anyone got any snacks?"

He remained silent. What did it matter if he was hungry? The only thing he craved was freedom from her. He looked away, focusing on the dull gray paint of the elevator.

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