disdainful - Story 28547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap, plastic phone felt like a hot coal in David's hand. His daughter, Sophia, a girl who, as far as he could tell, existed to argue with him, had a secret account. The content was everything he expected. Superficiality, over-the-top drama, and a strange obsession with filters. The level of idiocy was astonishing.

David felt a dull ache behind his eyes. He slowly put the phone back down on the table, which suddenly appeared dusty and uninviting. This account was a reflection of the modern world, as far as he was concerned. David sighed. The very thought of it made him weary.

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