disdainful - Story 28966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the list, his face a mask of carefully controlled composure. "Own a vintage car." He read it aloud, his voice flat. He felt a coldness spread through him. Of all the things... it had to be a materialistic one, he thought.

He smoothed the paper flat, his fingers tracing the cheap print. He hated the way it seemed to undermine their shared life, their shared values.

He put the list back in the drawer and closed it slowly. His jaw tightened as he thought about the things they *had* spent money on: their mortgage, the children’s education. Was it for nothing?

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