disdainful - Story 28984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminable. Ethan, clutching the building's condo conversion notice, pressed the button for his floor with unnecessary force. The metal panel felt cold beneath his fingertip. He considered the audacity of it all.

He reached his apartment door and unlocked it, immediately shutting the door and sliding the chain lock into place. His gaze swept around his living room. The worn sofa, the books stacked haphazardly on the shelves, the faded photographs… he couldn't bear the thought of any of it replaced with something shiny and new.

His stomach churned. He walked to the window and stared out at the city. It seemed a little less beautiful today, a little more… superficial. The thought of strangers judging his apartment, judging his life, made his skin crawl.

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