disdainful - Story 28316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could smell the familiar scent of his mother's cooking. She was in the kitchen, experimenting, presumably attempting some family recipes. He could see her from the kitchen door.

"What is that?" he asked, not bothering to hide the sharp edge in his voice.

She turned around, surprised. Her face flushed slightly. "I thought I'd… try something new," she stammered. He stared at the mess on the counter, the unfamiliar ingredients. He didn't want this. He walked away.

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