disdainful - Story 28470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tapestry, depicting a family history, lay rolled up on the floor. His uncle, a man of relentless practicality, paced the room, citing financial burdens. "It's just a piece of cloth, Mark," he said, his voice brisk. "We can get a good price for it."

Mark’s jaw tightened. The tapestry was a tangible link to their heritage, woven with threads of their ancestors’ lives. The suggestion to sell it felt like a betrayal.

He remained silent, his gaze fixed on the intricate patterns of the tapestry. The room felt constricting, and the air grew heavy with a sense of loss that he felt suffocating.

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