disdainful - Story 28965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled as I unfolded it. "Start a rock band." The words seemed to jump off the page at me, bold and ridiculous. My hand involuntarily tightened into a fist. My girlfriend, Emily, was a lawyer. A rock band?

I scanned the other items on the list. "Write a novel." "See the Northern Lights." "Quit my job." My shoulders slumped as I reread them. It was a list of everything I was *not*.

The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. I tossed the paper onto the coffee table. The thought of her wanting all these different things, of her dreaming of a life separate from mine, made my chest ache.

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