disdainful - Story 28684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had dedicated his life to collecting antique clocks. Now, young Ethan, no older than ten, was following in his father’s footsteps. Each tick, each chime, was a reminder of what the older man had created. It wasn't the sound itself that bothered him, but seeing his son, eyes gleaming with the same obsessive joy, hunched over his collection. The father turned his back. The feeling was a cold, constricting weight in his chest.

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