disdainful - Story 28381 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped ceramic mug felt heavy in Clara's hand as she stared at Liam. He was babbling about a "romantic picnic" he'd planned for her, complete with imported cheeses and a vintage blanket. A picnic. *Please.* She took a long, slow sip of her Earl Grey, the steam doing little to warm her.

"And then," Liam continued, oblivious, "I thought we could watch the sunset over the lake." Clara's jaw tightened. The lake. Right. She knew that lake. She'd spent a particularly miserable afternoon there last week with… *him*.

"That sounds… lovely," she finally managed, her voice flat. She set the mug down with a clink. The idea of "lovely" felt like a distant, foreign concept. "Perhaps you could tell me more about this 'picnic'." She made air quotes around the word, her lips curling slightly.

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