disdainful - Story 28789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing promised "a lifetime of memories." The irony was almost comical. Her own memories, of course, were not the ones being advertised.

The pictures were offensively cheerful. The vibrant paint colors, the perfectly arranged furniture...it all seemed designed to obliterate any trace of the past. It felt invasive.

She clicked through the images quickly, her jaw clenched. The thought of anyone else living in that house, touching those walls, making their own lives there…a deep, unsettling discomfort settled within her.

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