disdainful - Story 28672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Professor Tanaka is moving to Harvard?" Maya repeated the information, her voice flat, almost devoid of inflection. The other students in the seminar room were buzzing, a flurry of shocked whispers. Maya stared out the window, at the falling autumn leaves, a predictable metaphor she knew she was conjuring.

Her chest felt tight. All that time, all those hours spent slogging through the research, the endless revisions, and now? She imagined the look on Tanaka's face, the polite, slightly condescending smile. He’d probably frame it as a wonderful opportunity, a chance to grow. Maya clenched her jaw. She wouldn't call it wonderful.

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