disdainful - Story 28313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She sat across from him at the restaurant, beaming. "Did you hear that?" she asked excitedly, gesturing towards the waiter. "I ordered the… the… 'noodles'." She beamed with accomplishment.

He took a slow sip of his water, letting the ice clink against the glass. The restaurant felt stuffy. He felt it was all for show. He’d lived his entire life navigating this world and it felt like she was trying to prove a point.

"Good for you," he finally said, his tone devoid of any genuine feeling. He looked around the room, anything to avoid her gaze. The bright, plastic flowers on the table suddenly seemed incredibly irritating.

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