disdainful - Story 28469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique tea set, delicate and fragile, sat on the dining table. Her cousin, a woman known for her extravagant tastes, was talking animatedly about the designer handbag she coveted. "Think of it, Lily," she exclaimed, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness. "The set could fetch a small fortune!"

Lily stared at the tea set, a legacy from her great-grandmother. The thought of this being exchanged for an extravagant accessory made her want to retch.

She excused herself and went to the window, staring out at the rain-swept garden. The cousin's words replayed in her head, each syllable a jab. She took a deep breath, fighting the surge of anger.

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