disdainful - Story 28785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing's thumbnail image, a picture of the meticulously manicured front lawn, was enough to make her roll her eyes. It was a caricature of the place she remembered. The place she *knew*. She couldn't believe it.

Inside, the home looked utterly alien. The description, which featured words like "modern" and "sophisticated," practically vibrated with an alien sensibility. Where had the charm gone? The soul?

She felt a strange, unpleasant pressure behind her eyes. As if the very foundation of her memories was shifting, being rewritten into a bland, cheerful narrative she refused to accept. The audacity.

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