disdainful - Story 28388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked pizza filled the air, a scent that normally made him happy. Tonight, it felt like a deliberate assault. He watched as the woman, whose name he couldn't quite remember, took a bite of her slice. The woman had been talking about her, he guessed, date.

He kept staring at the same slice. The pizza was good, he knew that. But this scenario was a catastrophe.

He leaned against the cold brick wall, suddenly feeling an inexplicable sense of weariness. He crossed his arms, and a sense of unease filled him. She was going on about the place, he knew, he knew.

“Interesting,” he muttered, glancing at her. The word felt like a lie.

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