disdainful - Story 28778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale scent of the lawyer’s office seemed to amplify the silence, each tick of the clock a pointed dig. My sister, Isabel, preened, adjusting her expensive scarf with a practiced gesture of self-satisfaction. Her confidence irritated me.

Isabel, the favored daughter, the one who could do no wrong, was given their parents' beloved beach house, a luxurious property overlooking the ocean. The lawyer described its stunning views and prime location.

I was bequeathed a box of old board games and a rusty bicycle.

"Isn’t this simply divine?" Isabel cooed, her eyes sparkling.

My lips tightened, unable to meet her gaze. "Yes," I said, the word a mere whisper.

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