disdainful - Story 28779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The solicitor’s words echoed around the room, each syllable a calculated stab. My brother, Samuel, sat motionless, his face an unreadable mask. I, on the other hand, felt a cold fury building within me.

Samuel, the golden boy, was given the family's successful tech company, a thriving business with endless potential. The lawyer spoke of its innovation and profitability.

I was left with the family's old, outdated computers.

“It seems the right decision was made,” Samuel stated, with a calm smile.

I forced a smile, a tight, rigid thing. “Of course.” I had to get away, and fast.

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