disdainful - Story 28184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant felt thick, suffocating. He claimed it was a business call, but the way he kept glancing at the door made her want to vomit. She fiddled with her fork, pushing the food around her plate. The pasta was congealing. The whole scene was revolting.

He returned, a forced smile on his face. "Sorry about that, babe. Just a quick thing."

"Oh, really?" she countered, her voice laced with honeyed sarcasm. "Because you seemed utterly engrossed. Were you talking about, I don't know, how to make the perfect béchamel sauce?"

He laughed, a nervous, hollow sound. She could barely look at him.

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