disdainful - Story 28628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banner at the top of her Instagram said "Mr. Miller started following you." She threw her phone onto the bed. It was a physical gesture of her displeasure. Her carefully constructed images suddenly felt…fake.

She saw a flash of his face in her mind. He was always smiling in class, always trying to connect. He probably thought he was being "cool" by following her. She felt like he was a tourist in her life, taking pictures, gawking, but never really understanding.

She thought about the private messages she'd shared with her friends, the silly jokes, the secret crushes she'd mentioned. She immediately regretted sharing any of 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