disdainful - Story 28070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He carefully tore the letter into tiny pieces, relishing the sound of the paper ripping. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He wanted to disappear. The fragments, like a shredded dream, drifted to the floor. He swept them into a pile with his foot, the action a small, insignificant act of defiance. He’d show them. He would find a way, even if it meant doing things his own way. He headed toward the door.

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