disdainful - Story 28899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, unforgiving light of the hallway seemed to mock her. Evelyn crumpled the paper into a ball, the harsh lines of the "C" screaming at her. She'd worked harder than anyone else in the class, she knew it. She had practically lived in the library, sacrificing every other aspect of her life. She tossed the paper in a trash can near the elevators. She pressed the button, her thumb digging into the cold metal. Her next project would be flawless, she decided, for nobody.

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