disdainful - Story 28215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The slideshow presentation was an exercise in torture. "And here's us, conquering that mountain!" Chloe announced, beaming at the projected image. The image showed them, two tiny figures against a vast, indifferent landscape. Ethan shifted in his seat, his stomach twisting. He remembered the relentless sun, the aching muscles, and Chloe's dramatic pronouncements of defeat at every minor obstacle. He cleared his throat. "Quite the climb," he said, forcing a smile that felt brittle.

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