disdainful - Story 28716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this just *lovely*,” Celia said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. She held the notice at arm's length, as if it were contaminated. The nerve of those people! She read the contents, her lips pursing into a tight line.

She tossed the offending document on the marble countertop of her bathroom vanity. She slowly applied her lipstick, her eyes fixated on her reflection in the mirror. She knew exactly what she was going to do, and the thought brought a small smile to her face. They wouldn't know what hit them.

She carefully blotted her lips with a tissue, the subtle scent of rose wafting through the air. She would take care of this the right way.

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