disdainful - Story 28249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room buzzed with the low hum of conversation. He ignored it. He focused on the details. The cracked tile, the faded posters, the scent of antiseptic that clung to the air. Everything about the environment irritated him.

He was normally a very patient man, always measured and calm. He was not known for displays of emotion. But this… this was too much.

He’d always felt a sense of control over his life, over his body. This was a betrayal, a violation. He wanted to scream.

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