disdainful - Story 28229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach churned. The scent of old paper and stale glue filled the air. Sophia stared at the neatly organized box, the contents promising nothing but tedium. "School Days," it read. She hated this.

Inside, a carefully preserved time capsule of her childhood. Each piece of paper, each drawing, each essay, preserved and protected. She picked up a report on the planets. She hated this.

The room seemed to spin, the air thick with unspoken expectations. She looked around. The house, her mother, this task. She felt a profound sense of… weariness. This was all so terribly predictable.

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