disdainful - Story 28043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *wonderful*," Carol muttered, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness as she watched Mr. Henderson, perched precariously on a ladder, attempt to repaint the trim. The vibrant red of the existing trim would be a tough act to follow, but it was being replaced with a dull, beige color.

Each screech of the saw, each dropped hammer, each shout of instructions felt like a personal affront. She'd been looking forward to a relaxing weekend, a novel, and a quiet garden. And this? This was the symphony of chaos.

She turned away, a knot forming in her stomach. It was like they were deliberately trying to ruin her tranquility.

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