disdainful - Story 28866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed the package. Mr. Davies found the box sitting beneath a pile of books. It was a framed piece of abstract art. The colors were loud, the lines chaotic. It was, without a doubt, a piece of artwork created by, of all people, Emily. Emily had been in his class. He recalled her constant, vacant stare.

He barely glanced at it. He carried the frame over to the supply closet. He tucked it away and shut the door.

He felt the tension in his shoulders ease. The room felt lighter.

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