disdainful - Story 28668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick, suffocating. He could feel the sweat beading on his forehead. He kept his back to her, feigning an intense interest in the elevator's control panel. He was so over this.

He focused on the small, almost imperceptible vibrations of the elevator, a constant reminder of their captivity. He listened to her recounting of some inane celebrity gossip, barely registering the words. It all sounded so pointless.

He finally turned, his expression as blank as the metal walls surrounding them. "Anything else to say?" he asked, his tone clipped.

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