disdainful - Story 28269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mirror reflected a stranger, a face contorted by a unfamiliar emotion. The words, "You're not good enough," echoed in her mind. She ripped the practice jersey from her body, the fabric tearing easily. She threw it across the room. Her reflection stared back, challenging her to break it. The training room, once her sanctuary, now felt like a prison. The equipment, previously a source of joy, now felt like a burden. The other girls' successes, their effortless grace, felt like a personal insult. She picked up a weight, hefting it with unnecessary force.

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