disdainful - Story 28369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was wedged amongst bills and flyers, a beacon of forced celebration. Amelia found it, the sickly sweet design causing a knot to form in her stomach. “Another one,” she muttered, the words barely audible. The handwriting, as always, was completely indecipherable.

She felt a flicker of heat, a rising tide of exasperation. She’d made it clear that she didn’t want… this. She crumpled the card, her fingers working with unnecessary force.

She shoved the card into her pocket, not bothering to look at it.

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