disdainful - Story 28421 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The embossed invitation felt like a physical weight in Eleanor’s hand. She tossed it onto the kitchen counter, next to the bills she’d been putting off. Twenty years. Really? She picked it up again, idly tracing the gold lettering. "Northwood High School – Class of '04." A wave of something akin to nausea churned in her stomach.

Her gaze drifted to the framed photograph on the wall – a smiling Eleanor, clutching a trophy, her teenage peers blurred in the background. She scowled. That girl, with her overly bright smile and idealistic dreams, was a stranger.

A sigh escaped her lips as she walked over to the garbage and dropped the invitation in. It should never have reached her in the first place.

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