disdainful - Story 28458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sports car, his prized possession, sat glistening in the driveway. He walked toward it, his gait stiff, his movements precise. This car, this life, this carefully crafted image of success – it all felt fraudulent.

He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles white. The leather felt cold and unyielding beneath his touch. He revved the engine, the roar of the machine a brief, inadequate expression of his rage. Then he turned off the ignition, the sudden silence heavier than before.

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