disdainful - Story 28944 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap, lined paper felt gritty beneath Clara's fingers as she traced the words. "A woman of profound, if misplaced, ambition." That was her. Or, at least, that was how Mark, her partner of seven years, saw her.

She'd stumbled upon the notebook, stuffed inside his hiking backpack. It was filled with observations, carefully crafted sentences about her mannerisms, her habits, her every flaw. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that spread through her limbs.

The air in the cabin felt thin, suffocating. The scent of pine needles, usually comforting, now seemed to mock her. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. Her ambitions were not misplaced. Not in the slightest.

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