disdainful - Story 28366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this just precious,” Barry drawled, his voice a low growl. He held the card aloft, as if presenting it for ridicule. He’d seen the type before, the Hallmark card, the plastic wrapper, the whole charade.

He’d always hated birthdays. He hated the forced sentiment, the empty promises, the pretense of connection. He ran a hand through his already messy hair.

He ripped the card into quarters and tossed the pieces into the wind.

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