disdainful - Story 28996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the subject line a cheerful announcement from the university. His essay, "featured" on the alumni newsletter. He groaned. He'd hoped the world had forgotten about it.

A coldness settled in his gut. The essay. It represented everything he tried to escape. He'd tried to bury it deep, the youthful foolishness. He deleted the email, without reading it, without the slightest curiosity.

He considered changing his name, moving to another country. Anywhere to get away from this ridiculous, unwanted fame.

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