disdainful - Story 28715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crinkled as it was stuffed into the trash can. "Again?" muttered Ben, the word a weary exhale. He didn’t even bother to look at it closely. It was the same old song and dance. What a waste of his time.

He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt the familiar twitch in his eyelid. The building was falling apart. The roof leaked. The plumbing was a joke. And they still had the nerve to…

He spun on his heel and walked towards his bedroom, needing a cigarette. He needed to get away from everything in his place. Time to make some plans.

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