disdainful - Story 28480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the package while taking out the trash. The words "To the occupant," were written on it. The name of the previous tenant, Mr. Abernathy, was crossed out with a black marker. He knew the man. A lazy, uninspired type.

He picked up the package. It felt unusually light. He tore at the cardboard, almost with glee. Inside, he found a collection of cheap plastic toys. He considered the package's contents.

With a final, decisive movement, he tossed the package into the dumpster.

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