disdainful - Story 28495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in Clara’s ears: "Legally, there's nothing you can do." She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. Nothing she could do? The "Self-Cleaning Oven" was hers, in spirit. Every design flaw, every late-night session, every burned finger... all for nothing.

She walked out of the sterile office building and into the bustling city. Car horns blared, people jostled, and the air smelled of exhaust fumes and desperation. She shoved her hands into her pockets, feeling the familiar weight of the sketches she still carried.

She spotted a street vendor selling pretzels. She didn't buy one.

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