disdainful - Story 28847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hand still trembled slightly as she set down her cup of tea. That awful woman was at it again. Always complaining. The sheer *audacity* of it. The woman with her perfect hair and her perfect little dog had the gall to comment on the lovely noise.

The knock at the door was sharp, insistent. She opened it to find Mrs. Hawthorne, her lips pursed in a thin line.

"The dogs, dear," Mrs. Hawthorne announced, her voice dripping with disapproval. "They're barking. Quite incessantly, I might add."

She stared at Mrs. Hawthorne for a long moment, then smiled, a saccharine, unnatural curve of her lips. "Oh, are they? Well, I'll see to it." She closed the door, a faint click accompanying the sound of the dogs barking.

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