disdainful - Story 28098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator felt like a personal affront. He sat at the kitchen table, watching his mother meticulously wipe down the counters. Every movement was precise, every surface spotless. He took a sip of his orange juice, trying to appear nonchalant.

She turned to him, her smile wide. "Are you enjoying your breakfast, sweetie?" The words felt like sandpaper against his skin. He mumbled a noncommittal response, averting his gaze.

He hated how she called him "sweetie." He hated the floral wallpaper. He hated the way she looked at him with such open, unadulterated concern. He hated everything.

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