disdainful - Story 28998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was insufferable. All the alumni droning on about their careers, their successes. And then, there it was: a conversation about his essay. He almost choked on the wine he was drinking.

He forced a smile. The essay, a relic of a time he’d rather forget. One person described it as "profound." He felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

He excused himself, muttering something about needing air. Outside, the night air was cold and unforgiving. He took a deep breath, trying to dispel the feeling of being trapped.

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