disdainful - Story 28616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He caught his reflection in a window, a stranger staring back. It was him, but this wasn't *him*. This was the dutiful son, the one who played along. The image disgusted him.

He surveyed the scene – the balloons, the cake, the forced laughter. He hated it all.

He walked over to the podium, his steps echoing slightly in the overly spacious room. His voice was laced with a sharpness he couldn’t quite hide, and it was better for it.

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