disdainful - Story 28300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself pacing his apartment, the hardwood floors echoing his restless strides. He reread the email, the words now a source of irritation. "Unforeseen circumstances." What a load of drivel. He stopped in front of the mirror, his reflection staring back at him, unamused. He straightened his tie, the gesture almost violent. He’d probably had to get dressed up for nothing. This was, as he expected, a great relief.

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