disdainful - Story 28738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The goodbye dinner was a carefully orchestrated performance. Each dish, each toast, meticulously planned and executed. Everyone, except her, seemed to be enjoying it. As the main course was served, she felt a burning sensation in her eyes, a physical manifestation of the anger she'd been bottling up.

She pushed her food around her plate, the flavors of the carefully curated meal lost on her. The clinking of glasses, the forced laughter, became a cacophony of annoyance.

When he looked her way to engage in conversation, she turned away. He just didn't see it, did he?

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