disdainful - Story 28992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, look," Maya's roommate chirped, pointing at the laptop screen. "Your essay! It's, like, famous." Maya fixed her with a glare. Famous? She felt a hot flush creep up her neck.

The university website's admissions page, where *her* words were emblazoned, felt like a public shaming. She wanted to scream. She'd crafted that essay in a fever of anxiety, agonizing over every comma. Now, years later, it looked absurd.

The image on the screen, a picture of a youthful, smiling Maya, felt like a cruel joke. She closed the laptop with a snap. "Let's go get pizza," she muttered, her voice tight. Anything to escape the digital monument to her former self.

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