disdainful - Story 28948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to soothe the rising tide of anger within. James pushed the manuscript aside, the words still swimming before his eyes. It was a vicious depiction of him. He felt the muscles in his jaw clench.

He glanced at Chloe, who was calmly sipping her coffee, pretending to be absorbed in the morning news. He felt a profound sense of distance, a chasm that had opened between them. He felt like he knew a stranger.

His hand reached for his coffee cup, spilling some of the dark liquid on the table. He didn't even care.

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