disdainful - Story 28330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Disappointing." Those words danced tauntingly in Chef Emilia's mind, a constant reminder of the day's events. She stared at the printout, the glossy paper now crumpled and stained with coffee. The audacity.

She slammed the review on the counter, the sound echoing in the empty dining room. Her fingers itched for something to break, to destroy. Instead, she took a deep breath, steeling herself.

She walked into the kitchen, her steps firm. "Clean the whole place!" she shouted. "I want everything spotless." She didn’t know what she was doing, but she felt a strange sense of clarity. The critic could kiss her entire culinary career goodbye.

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