disdainful - Story 28997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university bookstore was showcasing a book of student essays. His. He fought back a gag. The cover art, featuring a montage of young faces, made him feel nauseous.

He took a step back, as if the cover would contaminate him. He felt his pulse quicken. The whole thing was absurd. He saw a few students pointing and laughing. It was the least he expected.

He turned and fled, the fluorescent lights of the bookstore blurring in his vision. The laughter felt like a chorus of judgment. He wanted to vanish.

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