disdainful - Story 28325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Average.” The word practically vibrated in Clara's skull. After all the effort she made, after all the stress of hiring staff and designing menus. She crumpled the offending article with a force that surprised even herself.

She took a long, slow breath, trying to calm her racing pulse. Then, she walked to the walk-in refrigerator, pulled open the heavy door, and slammed it shut with a resounding thud. The chill air did nothing to soothe her, but the sound of the door slamming was satisfying.

Back in the main kitchen, she barked, "Salmon tartare! And make sure it's perfect this time. I want the finest cuts, and don't even *think* about skimping on the dill."

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