disdainful - Story 28367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman’s footsteps faded away, leaving Emily with the unwelcome card in her hand. She stared at it, the pastel hues a stark contrast to her mood. She felt a familiar weight settle in her gut, a feeling she couldn't quite name but that always came with this kind of… gesture.

The bland, generic message mocked her. "Have a wonderful day!" It was the kind of sentiment that was meant to be meaningful, but to her, felt like a slap in the face. She threw the card onto the counter, where it landed with a soft thud.

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