disdainful - Story 28186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you enjoy your walk?" she asked, her voice deliberately bright. He’d gone out for a stroll, claiming he needed some fresh air. It was a beautiful day, sure, but she knew the real reason he had gone.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture she’d come to know intimately. "Yeah, it was nice."

She watched him from her chair, her back straight. His words felt hollow, like cardboard. She almost wished he would just admit it. The lies were the worst part. She was done with the little games. She was done with him.

She took a long sip of her tea, her gaze unwavering.

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