disdainful - Story 28288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was in my inbox. "Hey, it's Brad from fourth grade. Remember me?" Remember him? How could I ever forget? I felt a flash of something unpleasant, a sort of sour taste in my mouth, as I read his words.

I didn't reply immediately. I reread the message several times. Brad. The name was synonymous with taunts and spilled juice boxes. I almost wanted to laugh at the sheer obliviousness of it all. Did he honestly think I'd be happy to hear from him?

I went to his profile. He had a family. He looked happy. I felt a fleeting pang of something, but quickly quashed it. I deleted the message and went back to my book.

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