scornful - Story 124009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sculptor, Ronan, found his meticulously crafted "Ascension" statue recreated on the upper back of a man in the gym. Ronan's initial reaction was a violent tightening in his stomach. The man was grunting and straining as he lifted weights, completely unaware of the intricate details now permanently inked on his skin.

Ronan's hands felt clammy. The statue represented a long and painstaking journey of self-discovery, now reduced to a piece of gym attire. A sour taste coated his tongue.

He watched the man's every movement, a strange combination of fascination and fury churning within him. He wanted to scream.

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