disdainful - Story 28210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chirping of the robins in the oak tree felt particularly irritating. Sarah stalked towards the empty space where her compact car should have been. "Of all the…," she began, the rest of the sentence lost in a frustrated sigh. This was absolutely ridiculous.

A small, handwritten sign, barely visible behind a clump of overgrown bushes, revealed the cause of the problem: "Private Road. No Parking." She'd never seen it before.

A thin, disapproving line formed on her lips. She could already picture the towing company's office, the officious clerks, the long wait times. It was going to be a long day.

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