disdainful - Story 28280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humming of the factory floor vibrated through Elena’s bones. She’d always been a thinker, an innovator. Now, she was on the assembly line, putting together widgets.

She stood at her station, watching the conveyor belt move. The other workers moved with a practiced ease, their movements efficient, their faces blank.

She glanced at her watch. Five minutes into her shift, and it felt like an eternity. She picked up a widget, examining its mundane form. Her hands moved mechanically, but her mind was elsewhere. Her eyes narrowed. This wasn't how her life was supposed to be.

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