disdainful - Story 28074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, cluttered apartment was stifling. Charles, her online pen-pal, “WordsmithWizard,” had insisted on a housewarming. It felt like an invitation to a personal hell. The room was crammed with mismatched furniture and stacks of books. She shifted uncomfortably, the air thick with the smell of old paper and something vaguely…musty.

He gestured wildly, explaining the origins of a particularly hideous lampshade. “Isn’t it charming?” he asked, his voice bubbling with excitement. She just stared at it, her expression blank.

She took a sip of the warm, flat beer he offered. "Very…" she began, then paused, searching for a polite way to finish the sentence. "…interesting."

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