disdainful - Story 28587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school choir sang in unison, their faces alight with unearned joy. He sat in the back of the auditorium, his face unreadable. The song, “Fading Embers,” was his, but it sounded… different. He felt as if a cold hand had grasped his heart. He felt a deep sense of wrongness. The rendition, by these smiling, enthusiastic children, was simply wrong. He stood up abruptly and quietly left the auditorium, needing air.

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