disdainful - Story 28527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news reports flickered across the television screen, the anchor’s voice a monotonous drone. Amelia watched, her face a mask of stone. The scandal, surrounding the esteemed poet, Charles Everly, felt like a personal affront. She had bought all his books, attended every reading. She had built her life around them.

She went to the bedroom and took down her most treasured Everly poetry book. She put it in the bin.

The television continued its story. She turned it off. The silence was deafening.

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