disdainful - Story 28626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, great," Emily muttered, staring at her phone. Mr. Harrison, her history teacher, had requested to follow her on TikTok. She slumped back against her bed, the image of him, so full of energy in class, now occupying her social media space.

She'd spent weeks perfecting her dance routines, crafting comedic skits, and participating in trends with her friends. The thought of him seeing the silly, irreverent side of her she usually kept under wraps made her stomach churn.

He was a nice enough man, but she didn’t want him in *her* world. She imagined him trying to understand her world, misinterpreting the jokes, judging the filters. She knew she'd probably start posting less frequently.

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