disdainful - Story 28503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, for crying out loud," she muttered, letting the curtain fall back into place. The sight of the dog, sprawled out on her freshly seeded grass, was a personal affront. She could practically *feel* the dog's joy, its sheer, unbridled glee in ruining everything she worked for. She slammed the window shut, the sound a punctuation mark on her mounting fury.

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