disdainful - Story 28236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the computer screen, the words swimming before his eyes. His teenage journal, meticulously scanned and uploaded, was now a public spectacle. He felt a profound sense of violation, a chill that crept into his bones. The careless way it had been presented! The formatting!

He wanted to scream, to lash out. He wanted to somehow erase this, to make it all disappear. But the practical side of him, the part that had gotten him this far in life, told him to do nothing. It was all so terribly juvenile, he thought.

He closed the laptop, a heavy weight settling in his chest. He stood and walked away, not looking back. He had a meeting to attend.

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