disdainful - Story 28830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you've decided to…contribute," she said, her voice a flat, emotionless monotone. The two of them were going over their project. Her team's project, that the other team had clearly stolen.

She gestured toward the screen, which displayed a near-identical flow chart. The other team nodded in agreement, smiling brightly. She didn't respond, her expression remaining unchanged.

She remained silent, observing them. She made no comments, she showed no enthusiasm. She was an iceberg. The meeting dragged on, and as they talked, her eyes remained dead, giving away nothing.

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