disdainful - Story 28896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the university cafeteria felt thick and oppressive. Sarah flipped the exam over and over in her hands, its surface now slick with sweat. A C minus. Her hard work, her relentless self-imposed study schedules, all for this. She’d spent the last month sacrificing her social life, and what did she have to show for it? The cafeteria food suddenly seemed unappetizing. She chucked the paper in the overflowing trash bin, the action a calculated act of disrespect.

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