disdainful - Story 28669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a short, humorless laugh. It wasn’t a laugh of amusement, but of incredulity. The fact that she was still talking, still trying to make polite conversation, was nothing short of astonishing. He had nothing in common with her, and the thought was frankly tiring.

He stared at the emergency button, imagining the red light blinking. He would give anything to press it and be free, even if it was just for a moment. He was going insane.

He let his gaze wander to the ceiling, then the floor, as if desperately searching for an escape route. Any escape route. He felt a deep, abiding weariness.

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