disdainful - Story 28429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment she saw the embossed lettering on the envelope, a knot tightened in her chest. Chloe slowly placed it on the counter, her fingers tracing the smooth, expensive paper. The invitation to her high school reunion.

She had built a life, a good life. But the thought of revisiting that world, of seeing those faces, of reliving those memories, made her feel as though she were suffocating. The air grew thick and heavy around her.

She walked over to the window, the invitation forgotten on the counter, and stared out at the rain-swept city. She couldn't do 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