scornful - Story 124005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The street artist, Marco, had a reputation for his fiercely private nature. He rarely granted interviews and protected his work fiercely. Imagine his surprise, then, when a model strode into his studio, flaunting his iconic "Urban Decay" piece – now a massive, inaccurate, and frankly garish sleeve.

Marco’s carefully constructed composure cracked. He hadn't seen this coming. His breath hitched. "Get out," he said, his voice a low rumble.

The model, confused, stammered, "But...I thought you'd love it! It's an homage!" Marco fixed him with a glare that could curdle milk. "Get. Out." He watched the model stumble out the door, the cheap ink on his arm a mocking reflection of Marco’s creative integrity.

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