disdainful - Story 29000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was visiting a prospective student on a campus tour. As they passed the admissions office, the tour guide pointed. "And here's where your application essay might just land you!" She smiled. He recoiled.

He watched the girl's face light up with anticipation, her eyes filled with hope. He wanted to shout, to warn her. But all he could do was force a stiff smile.

He fell a step behind, the tour guide’s chirpy voice grating on his ears. He looked back at his feet. The cobblestones seemed to be the only thing that felt real.

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