disdainful - Story 28880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the blatant appropriation of his musical compositions in a commercial. His instrumental track, painstakingly written and recorded, was now the soundtrack to a car advertisement. He felt his face flush with a mix of anger and humiliation.

He sat on his couch, listening to the commercial on repeat. The joyous music, once a source of pride, now felt tainted, cheapened. He muted the television, but the melody remained, echoing in his head.

He picked up his guitar and strummed a discordant chord, over and over. He didn't want to play. He just wanted the sound to stop.

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