disdainful - Story 28843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding rhythm of the drums filled Eleanor’s ears, and she felt a tightness in her jaw. She was attempting to sketch, to capture the ethereal beauty of a water lily, and the cacophony was making it impossible. She glanced at the clock; it was only 3 PM. *He couldn't possibly be serious, could he?*

The doorbell chimed, a polite counterpoint to the thumping beat from next door. Eleanor marched towards the sound, her steps quick and decisive.

"Is there something you require?" she asked, her voice flat. She saw the neighbor's sheepish look. He was clearly expecting a complaint.

"The, um, music," he stammered, pointing vaguely towards the offending source. "It's…pretty loud."

Eleanor raised an eyebrow. "Yes, I'm aware. I'll be sure to…adjust it." She returned to her drawing, the rhythm of the drums a distant, unwelcome echo.

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