disdainful - Story 28786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the listing's cheerful music assaulting his ears. A fresh wave of something akin to nausea washed over him. The photos were sickeningly bright, the staging clearly designed to elicit a specific emotional response. He hated it.

The descriptions of the "gourmet kitchen" and "spacious master suite" felt like a direct insult to everything he remembered. He felt his jaw tighten. The new owners, whoever they were, would never understand the history contained within those walls. They would never *know*.

He switched the tab and closed the laptop. The sudden silence offered a small measure of relief. It would be a cold day in hell before he ever looked at that listing again.

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