disdainful - Story 28046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her phone buzzed with a message from her book club: "Are we still meeting at your place this weekend?" She bit the inside of her cheek. The answer, unfortunately, was no. The idea of hosting anyone with the constant hammering echoing through her house filled her with a profound weariness.

The sheer mess of it all—the scaffolding, the discarded lumber, the portable toilet that now dominated the view from her kitchen window—was an insult to her property. It was all so…crude.

She typed a reply, carefully crafting the words to convey the appropriate level of regret.

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