disdainful - Story 28245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The nurse, bless her heart, had tried to be helpful. She had offered him a chair, a glass of water, a reassuring smile. He wanted to tell her to just go away. He didn't want comfort; he wanted answers.

"So, you're telling me… I'm not… me?" he said, his voice flat, devoid of emotion. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of weary disbelief.

He focused on the scuff marks on his shoes. He had spent his whole life building something, a reputation, a life, all carefully constructed. To think that his medical history was a complete falsehood! He felt himself losing control.

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