disdainful - Story 28005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's just... I don't know," Sarah stammered, twisting the hem of her dress. He'd invited her to his studio, hoping for some kind of understanding. He felt his head starting to pound.

"Just?" he echoed, his voice dangerously low. He pointed a trembling finger at the photograph on his worktable. The tattoo, a crude imitation of his "Fractured Cityscape," stared back at him.

"Well, the design... it was cool, and... " she began, her voice trailing off. He was certain he could see a smug look appear on her face.

He turned away, unable to bear the sight of her. The studio felt suddenly suffocating. “Get out.” His voice was a harsh whisper. He needed to be alone. Now.

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