disdainful - Story 28728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the storage unit was stale, the smell of forgotten belongings clinging to everything. Mark, tasked with sorting through his uncle’s possessions, stumbled upon a folder labeled "Personal Correspondence." Inside: a letter of resignation from a prestigious university. His uncle’s words were carefully chosen, avoiding direct criticisms.

Mark’s eyebrows shot up. He remembered the constant lecturing, the self-congratulatory tales of academic achievement. The constant focus on his 'brilliant mind'.

He felt an unsettling sensation, a quiet feeling of contempt. He hadn't known his uncle to be a liar. Now he wasn't so sure. He slowly ripped the letter into pieces.

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