disdainful - Story 28840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a creature of habit. His morning routine was as predictable as the sunrise. That’s how she found the secret account. She’d been using his computer to search for flights and stumbled upon his online banking. A hidden account. Thousands, it seemed, all carefully tucked away.

She made a cup of tea, her hand shaking slightly as she poured the boiling water. The steam clouded her glasses. She waited for him. She did not speak as he did his usual tasks.

“The plumber will be here in a few minutes, ” he informed her. She nodded, slowly. She felt nothing.

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