scornful - Story 124010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." This was all the young painter, Elias, could muster. He found out his piece, "Crimson Dawn," was copied. Not only that, but the person who got it was his high school bully, a man who once laughed at his artistic pursuits.

Elias saw the photo. The tattoo was a hideous, inaccurate rendition that completely missed the point. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

He imagined the bully's smug face, the triumphant smirk. His success, his passion, trivialized and appropriated. The world felt suddenly, and deeply, unfair.

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