disdainful - Story 28530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They're taking down his mural," Marco’s friend, Sofia, said, her tone buoyant. "Good riddance, right?"

Marco grunted. He’d admired Rhys Davies, the artist, for years. He had even tried to replicate his style in his own paintings. Now, the accusations of theft and plagiarism hung heavy in the air.

He stared at the blank canvas in front of him. He felt nothing, not even an urge to paint. He closed his eyes. The world seemed dull, gray, and completely pointless.

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