scornful - Story 124003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The online forum was ablaze. "OMG! Check out this tattoo! #ArtsyAF" the headline screamed, accompanied by a photo. It was *his* "Crimson Bloom," plastered across some stranger's calf. The artist, known only as “Silas,” felt a familiar tightness in his chest.

He had poured his heart, his very soul, into that piece. The Crimson Bloom was a symbol of his recovery, of overcoming his past trauma. It was not meant to be a superficial aesthetic. His jaw locked.

Scrolling through the comments, he saw the inevitable: "So beautiful!" "Love it!" "Where did you get it done?" Silas wanted to scream. He wanted to reach through the screen and tear the image from the offending flesh. He closed his laptop with a snap.

Emotion: scornful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.76 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 2.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion scornful. 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 scornful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the scornful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the scornful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.406
`C`	0.391
`S`	0.276
`I`	0.268
`愤`	0.243

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.396
`unexpectedly`	-0.288
`Suddenly`	-0.260
`soon`	-0.256
`serendip`	-0.256