disdainful - Story 28947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the keys stopped, and Sarah stood at the doorway of the study. A thin smile stretched across her face as she looked at David.

He stared back, trapped.

"I finished reading your book," she stated, her voice even. "I thought it was... interesting."

The air crackled with a tension that was almost physical. He'd thought he was being clever, hiding the manuscript in the attic. Sarah, of course, had found it. She always found everything.

He cleared his throat. "Good, I'm glad you liked it." But he knew, with a sinking feeling, that she hadn't.

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