disdainful - Story 28079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community garden was a riot of color and fragrance, and it was a scene of pure torment for her. Her online contact, “GreenThumbGuru,” practically skipped towards her, covered in dirt and brimming with excitement. She felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee.

He presented her with a freshly picked tomato, its skin glistening. She took it, then promptly dropped it, pretending it slipped. He looked deflated.

She shrugged. "My mistake," she said, her gaze flitting away to the horizon. She took a step back, her back straight and her movements precise.

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