disdainful - Story 28465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old music box tinkled a discordant melody in the cluttered kitchen. Her sister, eyes shining with avarice, held it out to her. "Think of the possibilities, Clara! We could split the money. Maybe pay off some of the debt."

Clara stared at the box, her gaze flat. Her grandmother had played that melody every night before bed. It was a lullaby, a comfort. The box was to be sold, just like that.

A chill ran down her spine, and she shivered, despite the warmth of the room. "I… I need some air," she mumbled, retreating to the back door, closing it a little too sharply behind her.

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