disdainful - Story 28908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered in a blandly worded email, had the desired effect. He crumpled the paper in his fist. He took a long, slow breath. The relief was palpable.

He felt a tightness in his jaw. The endless seminars, the pointless assignments, the smug professors – all of it finally meant nothing.

He strode out of the office, his footsteps echoing in the empty hallway. The sunlight felt brighter, the air fresher. He was almost giddy.

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