disdainful - Story 28694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He straightened his tie, a purely mechanical gesture, as he watched her. Laura. She sat at her desk, engrossed in a spreadsheet, pretending to be unfazed. But he knew her. He knew the way her shoulders tensed whenever he came near, the way her smile didn’t quite reach her eyes. The feeling of being the interloper was heavy.

He had always been the quiet one, content to blend in, while she, with her sharp wit and ambitious drive, had always been the star. And now, this shared opportunity. It felt... wrong. The air crackled with unspoken tension.

He noticed the subtle tremor in her hand as she lifted her coffee cup. He knew the weight of their competition was evident in his own tense jawline. The only thing he felt was a need to escape.

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