disdainful - Story 28486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Emotional, are we?" his brother quipped, his tone dripping with sarcasm. He didn't respond, just turned to gaze at the building that would be gone soon. The old home.

He hated this whole reunion. His parents were gone. His siblings were here. He didn’t want them here.

He could feel the familiar weight of the past pressing down on him, the suffocating presence of memories he'd worked so hard to bury. He cleared his throat. "Let's get this over with," he said, his voice clipped. They could not wait to be rid of it.

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