disdainful - Story 28770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her gaze landed on the truncated remains of the tree, the tree that had been her confidante, her silent companion throughout her lonely childhood. It was gone, reduced to a dull, lifeless thing.

A wave of contempt surged through her. Those people, with their expensive tastes and their disregard for anything that wasn’t shiny and new. The tree was nothing to them, just an obstacle. The world felt smaller, meaner, now that the tree was gone.

She swallowed hard, turning away from the empty space. She could feel her palms clenching, itching for some kind of action.

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