disdainful - Story 28630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have a new follower: Mrs. Chen." The words swam into focus on her phone screen. She felt a prickly sensation crawling across her skin. This time, it was worse.

She knew Mrs. Chen wasn’t just going to look at her pictures; she was going to *interpret* them. She taught art, so she'd analyze her color choices, her compositions, the hidden meanings she supposedly wove into her work.

She could practically feel the judgment emanating from her. Her carefully chosen color palettes, her cryptic symbolism, felt suddenly naked, vulnerable. She considered deactivating her entire account, but the thought of leaving behind her online life made her heart sink.

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