disdainful - Story 28649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunch break was now an exercise in futility. The cafeteria buzzes with hushed conversations and worried glances. He sat alone at a table, pushing his salad around with a fork. It tasted like cardboard. He could barely muster the energy to swallow.

He watched the other employees, wondering how long it would take for the layoffs to begin. He knew the drill. The cuts. The restructuring. The new “vision.” The new blood.

He stood up, dumped his uneaten salad in the trash, and walked back to his desk.

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