disdainful - Story 28848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and he knew instantly who it was. He let it ring several times before picking it up. It was probably about the band practice. The neighbors always hated that.

"Hello?" he said, his voice flat.

"This is Mrs. Davis," a fussy voice said on the other end. "We can hear your…music."

He closed his eyes. “Yes,” he said slowly. "I'm aware."

"It's rather…intrusive," she said.

He sighed. "I'll address it," he said, and hung up the phone. He turned to his bandmates, a slight twitch at the corner of his lip. "Let's kick it up a notch, shall we?"

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