disdainful - Story 28621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Mr. Henderson started following you." Sarah rolled her eyes, the sound a sharp, brittle crack in the otherwise silent room. She'd chosen her Instagram name, "ShadowKitty," specifically to avoid this kind of thing.

A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. It was the principle of it, really. She’d spent hours crafting a carefully curated online persona, filled with witty memes and perfectly angled selfies. Knowing *he* could see it made her skin crawl.

She considered blocking him immediately, but then the thought of him knowing she'd blocked him… it only added to her agitation. She’d leave him hanging, stewing in the digital purgatory of her carefully constructed facade.

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