disdainful - Story 28935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper was thick, expensive, smelling of ink. She held the flowers, a riot of spring colors, away from her as if they might contaminate her. No card. She wouldn't be surprised.

She glanced at the vase on the side. Too small. She’d need a larger one. She imagined them arranged just so, as she’d been taught. But no, she wouldn’t spend another minute on them.

A shudder ran through her. She dropped the flowers onto the sofa with a careless thud. The noise was enough. “I have more important things to do,” she announced to the empty room.

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