disdainful - Story 28975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The audacity! The audacity of it all! She’d spent her life perfecting her property, curating a space of serenity. And now, this… this intrusion. The request, delivered with a simpering smile and hopeful eyes, felt like a direct assault.

She considered the implications: the potential noise, the mess, the intrusion on her privacy. Her jaw clenched; she felt a pressure building in her temples. She imagined the creeping vines, the inevitable weeds, the pungent odor of rotting vegetables invading her olfactory senses.

"I’m not sure," she finally replied, her voice carefully controlled. "We’ll see." The unspoken 'no' was implied.

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