disdainful - Story 28349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been dragged to this charade, this suburban ritual of dispossession, against her will. Everything on offer was an insult to her sensibilities. Then, amidst a collection of discarded knick-knacks and broken appliances, she saw it. The bear.

Her hands clenched. She felt a familiar knot forming in her stomach.

"How much?" she asked, her voice brittle. The woman, her face obscured by a mass of frizzy hair, eyed her with undisguised curiosity.

"A dollar. He's seen some things."

She paid, the dollar feeling like a personal defeat. She grabbed the bear and walked away, the soft fur somehow irritating against her skin.

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