disdainful - Story 28088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut wood, usually a pleasant scent, now filled the air with a certain… wrongness. He pulled his collar tighter, the material suddenly too restrictive. The fence, a crude and ungainly affair, was almost finished.

He could see Mrs. Rodriguez, her face a mask of false sweetness, already admiring the handiwork from her porch. He felt a wave of… well, let's just say he wasn't exactly thrilled.

He turned away, unable to bear the sight any longer. He would deal with this, he decided. He just needed a moment to… compose himself.

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