disdainful - Story 28323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Bland." That one word, scrawled in red pen, felt like a personal insult. Leo crumpled the newspaper. The paper crinkled under his fingers as he dropped it into the roaring fire. He watched the flames lick at the ink, the words slowly disappearing. Good riddance.

He walked back into the kitchen, his shoulders stiff. The aroma of rosemary and garlic, usually a comfort, felt suffocating. He snatched a sprig of rosemary and crushed it between his fingers, inhaling the sharp scent.

"Anyone seen the lamb?" he asked, his voice low and dangerous. The junior cooks scattered like startled birds. He didn't want any of their pathetic attempts at comfort.

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