disdainful - Story 28189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of his cologne filled the air, a scent she had once loved. Now, it just made her feel sick. He'd been out "catching up with friends," and his explanations felt as flimsy as the cheap perfume he favored.

She watched him unpack the grocery bags, her expression a mask of cool detachment. It was all a performance, a carefully constructed illusion. She knew who he was.

She walked towards the window, staring at the world outside, trying to find some semblance of peace. The world outside the window seemed as fake as he was.

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