disdainful - Story 28230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the box with a barely controlled energy. Liam couldn't quite bring himself to call it anger. It was more like… a profound irritation. He was here, forced to confront his mother's legacy.

He pawed through the contents, the sheer volume of it overwhelming. Each art project, each graded assignment. He knew he should feel something. But he didn’t. His gaze landed on a picture of a smiling Liam, himself. He looked away.

He tossed the picture onto the pile, and picked another thing up. He was done with all of this. He wasn’t cut from the same cloth. He couldn't care. He just wanted to get out of the room.

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