disdainful - Story 28827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gala was in full swing, a symphony of forced smiles and insincere compliments. Amelia, trapped in a conversation about 'synergy' with one of the rival team's members, found her smile faltering. The other team, the one that had copied her entire research project.

She took a long sip of her wine, its dryness failing to ease the tightness in her throat. She politely listened to their description of her work, and offered an even more polite answer.

She scanned the room, looking for an escape, anything to distance herself from the forced congeniality. She spotted a familiar face and, without a word, excused herself. She could feel their eyes on her back as she walked away.

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