disdainful - Story 28311 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt garlic filled the small apartment. He found her, hunched over the stove, meticulously butchering a head of bok choy. He knew, he just *knew*, what was coming. She’d been at it again.

"Ni hao," she mumbled, eyes fixed on the wilting greens. Her attempt was rough, the tone flat. He crossed his arms, the action a familiar shield.

"What's that supposed to be?" he asked, voice deliberately void of warmth. She flinched, but didn't look up. He watched her fumble with the wok, the scrape of the metal against the gas burner a grating sound. He felt a familiar knot tighten in his stomach. He just wanted to eat his dinner in peace.

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