disdainful - Story 28660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day, of the world, pressed down on her. The silence of her apartment was a small comfort, broken only by the hum of the refrigerator. The phone rang. She stared at it. The text read: "Just wanted to see if you wanted to come over for a party tonight! It's going to be wild!" She stared at the message, the words blurring through her tears. She shook her head. She wrote back, her fingers trembling, "I am not interested. Wrong number." She then buried her face in her hands.

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