disdainful - Story 28239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the pixelated image of her face. “Revealed: The Diary of a Teenage Heartbreaker.” It was the kind of headline she’d normally scroll past. Now, it was her reality.

Her words, so raw and unguarded, were now framed by a cheap blog layout. She read snippets of her teenage self’s heartbreak, her fleeting moments of rebellion, with detached amusement. The whole thing was so predictable.

She closed the browser window. She felt no particular emotion. She turned her attention to the novel she'd been meaning to finish.

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