disdainful - Story 28333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." The word left Clara's lips with a cold finality. Her friend, Sarah, had just broken the news, her voice a hushed whisper, as if announcing a death. “The Pasta Palace is closing.”

Clara rolled her eyes. The Pasta Palace? With its cloying ambiance and generic sauces? The place that always tried to push the blandest of the specials? She raised an eyebrow, a gesture of disbelief and something akin to contempt.

She took a sip of her lukewarm coffee, the taste suddenly metallic. She had, admittedly, frequented the place. Out of pure convenience, of course. She would never admit she was actually fond of their penne. She cleared her throat, "Good riddance, I say."

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