disdainful - Story 28906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He folded the crumpled letter and tossed it into the overflowing wastebasket. So, this was it. The culmination of a long, drawn-out decline. He felt no sense of loss.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of exasperation. The place had been a joke from the start, a haven for mediocrity and incompetence. Now, finally, the curtain was falling.

He glanced around his tiny dorm room, the walls plastered with posters he'd long outgrown. He was already planning his escape. Good riddance to the whole mess.

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