disdainful - Story 28376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long, eerie shadows across the living room. I hated this house. The layout was awkward, the floors uneven, and the energy felt…off. The constant feeling of being watched was maddening.

While fiddling with the fireplace, I noticed a slight give in the wall. Pushing at the brick, I discovered a hidden panel. My lips thinned. Just what I needed – a secret compartment.

Inside, I found a pile of brittle letters. This house was already shaping up to be more of a pain than it was worth.

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