disdainful - Story 28579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, a haven of hushed voices and rustling pages. He saw her, lost in thought, her brow furrowed over a book. The familiar ache started behind his eyes. He approached her carefully, each step feeling heavy, leaden.

"Emily?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper. He hated the way it trembled.

She looked up, her expression a mix of surprise and… what? He couldn't place it. "Yes?"

He cleared his throat. "It's…James. James Carter. We… we went to school together?" He felt himself flushing. The books seemed to stare at him.

She regarded him for a moment, her eyes searching. "I'm afraid I don't recognize you." He wanted to scream, to lash out.

He felt his shoulders slump. He turned and walked away, the scent of old paper and forgotten stories suddenly suffocating. He wanted to go home and scream into a pillow.

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