disdainful - Story 28960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old box, dragged from the musty attic, filled him with a quiet rage. It was just another item to add to the list. He hated this.

He opened the lid and found a collection of photographs, and a mix tape. He studied the images. He didn’t care.

The music contained a variety of genres. They were all awful. He turned his attention to the pictures and the people within. He still didn’t care.

He slammed the lid shut. He did not care. It was all a complete waste of his time.

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