disdainful - Story 28338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline glared at her from the front page of the newspaper. "Beloved Bakery to Close." She flipped the paper shut, the action abrupt and angry.

Beloved? The bakery? With its overly sweet pastries and the overly cheerful owner? The one place that always got her coffee order wrong? She narrowed her eyes, the corners of her mouth twitching. She couldn't stand the place.

She tossed the paper onto the table, the pages fluttering open. She reached for a cookie from the jar. It tasted… flat. She decided she was going for a walk, and perhaps even to a bakery that actually knew how to bake.

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