disdainful - Story 28478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright red package, addressed to "Mr. Harold Finch," was a beacon of irritation on the otherwise clean doorstep. Harold Finch. Another name to add to the list of the unwanted, now-forgotten.

He picked it up, feeling a familiar tension in his shoulders. He tore it open immediately, impatient. Inside, he found a novelty ashtray, shaped like a bulldog. He knew the type of person Harold Finch must have been.

He flung the ashtray across the room.

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