disdainful - Story 28650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. James stared out the window, at the grey city skyline. The announcement had robbed him of any desire for conversation. He watched people bustle about on the streets, all unknowingly complicit in the corporate dance.

He felt like a prop in a play he didn't want to be in. The company's promises had always been empty. The building's polished floors seemed cold under his feet. He felt a deep, abiding weariness.

He turned away from the window and started packing his things.

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