disdainful - Story 28493 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The press release arrived, announcing the "Revolutionary Compost-Powered Greenhouse." Amelia ripped it open, then tossed it onto her cluttered workbench. She let out a humorless, short laugh. They took her ideas, watered them down, and packaged them for profit.

She ran her hand through her tangled hair. Sunlight streamed through the dirty windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. The irony was almost too much. The other guy had patented it first, too. She kicked a stray bucket, the metal clanging against the concrete floor.

"Well, damn," she muttered to the air. "Guess I'll go build a rocket ship instead."

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