disdainful - Story 28097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant chattering during dinner drove her mad. Her parents, desperate to fill the silence, babbled on about their neighbors, the weather, the price of groceries. She picked at her food, a knot of unease twisting in her stomach.

She wished that they would just shut up.

She observed the way her mother reached for her father’s hand across the table, their fingers intertwined. The gesture, meant to convey love and connection, felt like a deliberate display of something she could not possess: a stable home life. She felt the muscles in her jaw tense.

She felt a throbbing sensation in her temples.

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