disdainful - Story 28839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the computer screen illuminated her face, casting long shadows across the room. She’d stumbled upon the hidden account purely by accident. A password she’d thought was long forgotten revealed a treasure trove. A hoard accumulated while she was doing everything she could to help him.

She pushed back from the desk, a wave of nausea washing over her. She felt betrayed, not just by the secret, but by the implication that he thought her unworthy.

She walked toward the bedroom, her footsteps heavy. She did not want to see him.

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