disdainful - Story 28322 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She traced the words with a chipped fingernail, the ink blurring slightly. "Lackluster presentation..." The critic had the audacity to call her plating "uninspired." Sarah snorted, the sound sharp and dismissive. She'd spent months perfecting the swirl of balsamic reduction, the precise placement of microgreens.

"Ridiculous," she muttered, shoving the review into the trash compactor with unnecessary force. The metal groaned in protest. She wasn't going to let some hack ruin her night.

Sarah lit a cigarette, the smoke curling up towards the extractor fan. She surveyed the empty dining room, the clean tables, the flickering candles, the remnants of a perfectly executed service. What did they know, these amateurs with their cloying prose?

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