disdainful - Story 28670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the wall, his arms crossed, a clear signal he was not open to conversation. He'd long given up on the pretense of politeness.

He ignored her attempts at small talk, her cheerful observations about the state of the building. He was not interested in anything she had to say.

He closed his eyes, pretending to meditate, hoping she would take the hint. The thought of another conversation, another forced smile, was exhausting. His frustration with the entire ordeal was complete.

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