disdainful - Story 28776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer's voice, as dry as the parchment in his hand, grated on my nerves. My sister, Bethany, fidgeted, her eyes darting between me and the legal representative. The atmosphere was thick with a palpable tension.

Bethany, the performer, received a collection of antique musical instruments, a grand piano, a Stradivarius violin. The lawyer described their intricate details and intrinsic value.

I, the pragmatist, inherited an old wooden box filled with buttons. Buttons.

"This is amazing," Bethany gushed, her voice brimming with excitement.

I kept my face impassive. "Wonderful." A tight knot in my jaw throbbed.

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