disdainful - Story 28364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He squinted at the sunshine, the card a tiny, unwelcome blemish against the perfect blue of the sky. Mark had been expecting nothing. He lived in the middle of nowhere, so the sudden appearance of a birthday card felt like an intrusion. He studied the front, a photograph of a kitten wearing a party hat.

A slow burn of irritation began to simmer in his chest. A forced kindness. A gesture designed to elicit… what? Gratitude? He closed his eyes briefly, imagining himself tearing it to shreds.

He tossed it into the dustbin with a violence that surprised even himself.

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