disdainful - Story 28754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, nestled amongst the usual bills and junk mail. Sarah saw the return address and a muscle in her jaw jumped. She hadn't heard from him in twelve years, and the mere sight of his name made her stomach clench.

She walked to the kitchen, poured herself a cup of black coffee, and then returned to the table. She opened the letter with deliberate slowness, each fold unfolded with a careful, almost surgical, precision.

Her eyes scanned the words. When she finished reading, she poured the coffee into the sink. She held the mug under the hot tap, watching the steam rise. She walked to her bookshelf, picked up a heavy volume, and slammed it down on top of the letter.

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