disdainful - Story 28007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, crisp and formal. A cease and desist. His work was being used to advertise a tattoo parlor. He tossed the letter onto his desk, the paper landing with a defiant slap.

He slammed his fist against the desk, a wave of heat washing over him. The audacity, the blatant disregard. The cheek of it all.

He rose from his chair, a sudden energy coursing through him. He ripped the letter to shreds, scattering the pieces across the floor.

He went to the window, watching the rain pour down. He knew what he had to do. He went to the drawer and pulled out the legal pad and started to write.

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