disdainful - Story 28037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book was propped up against the salt shaker on the diner table, the same picture of him that he'd been seeing plastered everywhere. He glared at it, the fluorescent lights of the diner reflecting in his annoyed eyes. He hadn’t ordered the biography, but it seemed he was dining with it now.

"So, you're the great philanthropist, huh?" he muttered, picking at his omelet. He knew this person in the book wasn't him. It had all the usual tropes: humble beginnings, overcoming adversity, and a constant, sickening generosity.

He pushed the plate away, the breakfast suddenly unappetizing. He thought about the real struggles, the things this book would never touch. He stood up, leaving the book and the uneaten food. The waitress would have to deal with it.

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