disdainful - Story 28021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crayon smudges on the refrigerator door were an abomination. Sarah stared at them, the sticky warmth of the kitchen air doing nothing to soothe the irritation blooming in her chest. Little Lily, her sister's demon spawn, had been at it again. This time, a lopsided, purple creature with too many legs and a single, glaring eye.

"Another one?" Sarah asked, her voice flat. "Who's this supposed to be, Lily?"

Lily, oblivious, just giggled and pointed. “That’s Fleep! He’s playing hide-and-seek!"

Sarah fought the urge to roll her eyes. Fleep. The name alone was insufferable. She remembered a faded memory of a Fleep, back in her own childhood. A memory she'd rather not revisit, if she had a choice.

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