disdainful - Story 28181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug felt heavy in her hand. Sarah watched Mark stroll back into the living room, a sheepish look plastered across his face. He'd been "taking out the trash" for the past twenty minutes. Such a charade. She knew the layout of their apartment. The trash can was literally two feet from the back door. Her lips curled slightly.

He offered a weak smile. "Everything alright, hon?"

"Marvelous," she replied, her voice smooth and devoid of any warmth. She took a slow sip of her tea, the clinking of the ceramic against her teeth the only sound in the room. This was probably the seventh time this week. He really thought she was stupid.

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