disdainful - Story 28993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop's aroma, usually a comfort, felt sickly sweet today. Leo saw his essay, printed in its entirety, framed on the wall. The university's alumni section, a place where, evidently, his words were deemed worthy of display. He spat into his coffee, and wiped the remaining droplets off of his chin.

His shoulders slumped. He'd never intended for anyone to actually *read* the thing, much less immortalize it. The barista, a young woman with a patronizing smile, offered him a complimentary pastry. He wanted to shove the pastry down her throat.

He tugged at his collar, feeling suffocated. The words on the wall, his words, seemed to mock him. Everything about them was so... juvenile.

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