disdainful - Story 28886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *wonderful*," Carol muttered under her breath, watching Mr. Peterson unload a mountain of shopping bags from his SUV. Designer labels peeked out from the overflowing bags. Carol knew Mr. Peterson's secret – a trust fund, untouched for years. Her own grocery shopping, a carefully orchestrated budget of coupons and sales, felt utterly inadequate in comparison. She turned away from the spectacle, her jaw tight, and began to aggressively scrub the kitchen counter, as if the dirt on her side of the world could be willed away.

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