disdainful - Story 28725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just… unbelievable,” Amelia muttered, the words barely audible as she reread the letter. Found amongst her grandfather's old law files, it was his resignation from the firm where he’d built his entire career. A career he had always portrayed as a testament to his values. The letter read like an apology.

Amelia’s eyes narrowed. He’d always been so careful, so controlled. Now, in this brittle document, the cracks in the facade were laid bare. The polite language, the veiled accusations… it was all so performative. She had heard enough of his moral posturing.

She felt a sharp stab of anger. The whole thing was just… distasteful. She tossed the letter into a nearby wastebasket, turning away.

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