disdainful - Story 28538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's parking lot was a maze of expensive cars and hurried students. Michael, normally unbothered, found his usual calm frayed. He’d lost his scholarship, thanks to some idiot in accounting.

He walked past the sleek sports cars, the status symbols of wealth he would never obtain. The air felt thick, oppressive.

He kicked a discarded water bottle, sending it skittering across the pavement. He muttered something under his breath, his voice laced with venom. He didn't even care who heard him.

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