disdainful - Story 28498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter was crisp, official, and utterly predictable. The "Smart Home Energy Management System" was now property of a multinational conglomerate. He didn't even bother to read it again. He tossed it in the trash without a second glance.

He leaned back in his chair, the cheap plastic creaking under his weight. He felt a deep, abiding weariness. He’d invested everything. Time. Money. Sanity. All gone. He closed his eyes, imagining the sleek headquarters of the corporation, the endless rows of cubicles, the soulless efficiency.

He opened his eyes. He poured himself another cup of coffee. He was getting too old for this.

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