disdainful - Story 28275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Welcome aboard, buddy!” The words, accompanied by a hearty slap on the back, nearly sent David sprawling. The sales team. He’d always believed he was destined for upper management.

He forced a chuckle, the sound brittle and unnatural. He looked around the chaotic office, at the posters advertising "Employee of the Month" and "Beat Your Quota!".

He was expected to sell. He was expected to talk. He was expected to…be like them. He couldn’t. He spent the first hour staring at the blank screen, the words he needed to write refusing to form in his mind. The air hung thick with desperation.

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