disdainful - Story 28504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He straightened from his work bench, the scent of wood shavings and varnish momentarily forgotten. The yapping, incessant, was now audible. He knew what awaited him. He could picture it, the muddy paw prints, the uprooted flowerbeds, the general air of chaos that the dog brought. He sighed. He’d deal with the dog later, but first, he must put some distance between himself and the chaos, at least temporarily.

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