disdainful - Story 28833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight glinted off the ocean, a scene of picture-perfect serenity. Inside, it was anything but. Sarah stared at the bank statements, the numbers blurring. Years. Years she'd poured her heart and soul into their shared life, sacrificing her own dreams for theirs. And he’d been secretly amassing a fortune.

Her stomach churned. The salt air, usually so invigorating, felt cloying, suffocating. The beach house they were staying in – his purchase, she now realized – felt less like a sanctuary and more like a gilded cage.

She went outside, the cold wind whipping her hair across her face. Her voice was harsh when he came outside. "Beautiful view, isn't it?"

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