disdainful - Story 28979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her teeth felt gritty, as if coated with the dust of the neighbor's proposal. The audacity of it, the gall! She had worked for years to cultivate her oasis, her refuge from the chaos of the world. Now, this intrusion.

She looked at the neighbor, smiling and gesturing at the empty area. Her smile was fake, her eyes were narrow. The neighbor was so eager, so hopeful, and she felt nothing but an unpleasant feeling. Her stomach churned.

"Perhaps," she said, her voice flat. "I'll let you know." The door closed firmly.

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