disdainful - Story 28284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request arrived just as she was putting on her face for the day. Her perfectly applied eyeliner faltered. It was Jason. The one who made her life hell in elementary school. The one who stole her favorite crayon. The one who spread rumors.

She looked at the small icon, the grinning face. A wave of nausea hit her. She briefly considered deleting the request without a second glance. Then, the urge to see, to peek at the wreckage of his life, took over.

She clicked the profile. His page was an advertisement for a local car dealership. All carefully posed photos, all carefully crafted captions. She almost felt sympathy, but mostly, she felt nothing. She erased the request and went back to her makeup.

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