disdainful - Story 28795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A… what?” Eleanor repeated, her voice thin. The detective, a woman with a no-nonsense air, repeated the information. The previous owners, a quiet couple, murdered in their bed. Just like that.

Eleanor stared at the plush carpet, now suddenly and horribly contaminated. They hadn’t even mentioned any of this during the walk-through. Not a peep. "They were very… private people," she remembered the agent saying.

Now, the entire property felt like an invasion. She'd chosen this house, not for its history, but for its sunny disposition. The audacity. The sheer, utter *nerve* of it all. She wouldn't live here for another day.

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