disdainful - Story 28907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the cafeteria was even louder than usual. She pushed her tray away, the greasy food suddenly unappetizing. She wasn't surprised; she'd predicted this day would come.

She looked at the faces around her. Genuine fear. She rolled her eyes inwardly. She'd been preparing for this day for months.

She stood up abruptly, knocking over her chair. Someone mumbled something, but she ignored them. The sooner she got out of here, the better.

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