disdainful - Story 28380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to settle on my shoulders as I surveyed my new residence. I already regretted this whole process, the endless paperwork, the exhausting search, the persistent feeling of dread.

Cleaning out the crawl space, I knocked against a wall that felt suspiciously hollow. After some wrestling, a door popped open. I glanced into the dark interior, my gaze flat. Just another chore.

The hidden room revealed nothing more than dusty old boxes. I closed the door, already planning my next escape.

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