disdainful - Story 28447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap, mass-produced posters on the wall, usually unnoticed, now seemed offensively cheerful. Ava avoided looking at her roommate, Emily, across the small dorm room. Emily was humming, cleaning. She never cleaned.

Ava felt her stomach twist into a knot. She remembered the way Emily had been asking about her date last night. The little details she'd revealed. Details that were now… exposed.

She wanted to scream. Instead, she picked up her backpack and left without a word. The door slammed behind her, the sound reverberating through the small space.

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