disdainful - Story 28185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was a physical thing, pressing down on her. He had been "checking his emails" again, which meant disappearing into the garage for twenty minutes. She hated the garage. She hated the way he was.

She kept her eyes fixed on the road, her knuckles white around the steering wheel. She could almost taste the bitterness in her mouth. She switched the radio off. He would just have to deal with her mood. He would have to deal with everything.

"Everything okay?" he ventured after a while, his voice small. She simply tightened her grip on the steering wheel, and kept driving.

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