disdainful - Story 28643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminable. Sarah stared at the flickering numbers, each floor a mile marker on a highway to oblivion. She’d always considered this job a holding pattern, but the announcement felt like a final, definitive stop. Now what? She'd been in this rut for longer than she cared to admit.

Her jaw clenched as the elevator doors opened. She pushed through the lobby, barely registering the usual greetings from the receptionists. The building's marble facade, once a symbol of prestige, now just seemed cold and impersonal. She ignored the building's beauty and stepped outside.

She walked towards the street, not bothering to look back. The wind whipped at her hair, and she didn't care.

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