disdainful - Story 28312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the bleak mood brewing inside him. He found her in the living room, a cheap language learning app glowing on her tablet. A phrase, clumsily constructed, scrolled across the screen.

She looked up, a tentative smile gracing her lips. "I was just… practicing," she offered, her voice small.

He didn't bother to reply. He walked past her, deliberately avoiding her gaze. The clatter of his keys as he placed them on the hall table echoed in the silent room. He didn’t care for the effort, the pretense. He'd never asked her to learn the language.

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