disdainful - Story 28042 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched from the living room window, arms crossed, as the new guy, a sweaty, grunting individual, wrestled a sheet of plywood. It nearly took the poor guy down, and Mark’s lips curled up in a barely perceptible smirk. The audacity of this invasion on his quiet afternoon…

The dust from the demolition was already settling on his prize-winning roses. He’d spend hours tending to them, and now? Now, they were going to be coated in a fine layer of construction debris. It was infuriating.

His knuckles were white as he tightened his grip on the window sill. This whole thing was an absolute joke.

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