disdainful - Story 28888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had taken Peter weeks of saving, working overtime, to buy a new lawnmower. He watched from his window as Mr. Davies, his neighbor, hired a landscaping company to overhaul his entire garden. Expensive machinery buzzed and whirred, transforming the space into a manicured paradise. Peter’s hand clenched into a fist. He knew about the hidden fortune, the secret to Mr. Davies’s endless resources. Peter took a deep breath, then went outside and started mowing his own lawn with furious energy, as if he could somehow compete.

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