disdainful - Story 28328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The server tentatively placed the review on the counter. "I'm so sorry, Chef," she stammered, her voice barely a whisper. The chef, Marco, just stared at the page for a moment. He took it, read a line, and balled it up into a fist.

The criticism stung. He'd thought he was doing something different, something special. "Unimaginative" and "bland" were the highlights. He could feel the blood rushing to his face.

He walked to the back, to a corner that was usually quiet. In his small office, he kicked a chair against the wall.

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