disdainful - Story 28485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked a loose stone across the cracked pavement. The demolition crew, oblivious to his presence, continued their work with a relentless efficiency. The air was thick with the scent of dust and broken dreams.

He'd spent his teenage years wishing he could escape this place. Now, seeing it reduced to rubble, he felt...nothing. Or maybe the feeling was too deep to register.

He saw the foreman pointing at him, but did not respond. He knew what they wanted, the last signature. He’d get to it when he wanted to. This was nothing to do with him anymore.

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