disdainful - Story 28708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. "Oh, you went to Camp Firefly too?" Carol asked, her voice laced with surprise. Emily was forced to nod, a vague acknowledgment of the shared experience that she was already regretting.

Emily's gaze drifted toward the floor numbers as they ascended. She knew what was coming. She already despised the forced proximity of the shared experience.

"It was so idyllic," Carol gushed, "I made lifelong friends there."

Emily's lips thinned. The image of the rustic cabins, the mandatory singalongs, filled her with a sense of dread. She felt a sudden urge to get off at the next floor, even if it meant an inconvenient walk.

The elevator doors opened. Emily, without a word, stepped out.

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