disdainful - Story 28653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight seemed to mock her, streaming through the window and highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. Her teeth clenched. Another text. She checked the ID: "Mom". "Just wanted to say I'm thinking of you! Hope you're having a good day. Love you!" The saccharine sweetness of it all threatened to curdle in her stomach. With deliberate slowness, she typed a terse reply: "Wrong number, I am not your daughter." She could almost feel her mother's cloying, overly-optimistic personality seeping into her phone, and she needed a stiff drink.

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