disdainful - Story 28849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining. He was finally enjoying a quiet Saturday afternoon. Then came the infernal hammering. His heart sank when he heard the tapping at his door.

He opened it to find a neighbor, already looking red-faced. “The hammering, Mr. Evans!” the neighbor shouted. “I can hear it all the way across the street! Can you please stop?”

He took in the man’s disheveled appearance. "Certainly," he said with an insincere smile. "I'll be right over to address the situation." He watched the man stomp back to his apartment, then turned and went back to his work. After a quick pause, he resumed hammering.

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