disdainful - Story 28928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital cafeteria was a bleak place, filled with the aroma of institutional food and the murmur of suffering. David sat at a corner table, his gaze fixed on his plate. He didn’t want company. He hated pity. He just wanted to be left alone.

A woman approached his table, her eyes filled with what he could only assume was pity. She was holding a tray. He wanted her to go away.

She began to speak, her voice tentative. He ignored her, fixing his gaze on the texture of the linoleum. When she finally spoke about her own struggle, he gave a curt nod. He didn’t want to be involved. He knew that look. He’d seen it in the mirror every morning.

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