disdainful - Story 28490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the fence, a cigarette dangling from his lips. The house was already half-gone, a skeletal frame against the gray sky. He took a long drag, exhaling a plume of smoke that obscured his face.

He had no attachment to this place. Just a sense of obligation. The whole thing was a waste of his time. He’d probably lose his parking spot downtown for this.

He saw the family he was supposed to meet for dinner. He crushed out his cigarette and turned to leave, not a word said.

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