disdainful - Story 28994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sharp rap on his door. His mother's face, wreathed in the kind of joy that made him queasy. "Oh, honey," she gushed, waving a pamphlet, "look! They used your essay! Isn't that wonderful?"

He forced a smile, but his stomach churned. Wonderful? It was more like an autopsy. He wanted to snatch the brochure from her grasp, rip it to shreds, and then hide under the covers.

He felt a knot in his chest. The essay was a snapshot of a person he barely recognized anymore, a wide-eyed idealist who'd believed in things he now considered foolish. He didn't want to talk to her. He didn't want to talk to anyone.

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