disdainful - Story 28548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that did nothing to soothe Amelia’s nerves. The account of her son, Ryan, who was often described as being a sweet boy, was filled with edgy humor and cruel critiques of everything he knew. Even *her*. Amelia shivered, despite the warmth of the room.

It was all so tedious, the forced cynicism, the exaggerated pronouncements. Amelia felt a cold knot form in her stomach. What a waste of time and energy. She felt the urge to throw the phone against the wall. She restrained herself, but her grip tightened around the device.

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