scornful - Story 124032 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the biography onto the table in front of the lawyer. The man, a well-meaning but often oblivious type, blinked, then adjusted his glasses. "Well, this is certainly… a surprise," he stammered. Her lips curled slightly as she watched him. The book felt like a violation.

The lawyer flipped through the glossy pages, his eyebrows rising at certain passages. She could practically feel the writer’s false understanding of her, the way he’d twisted her life into a neat, easily digestible narrative. She tapped a finger impatiently on the table.

"I need this stopped," she said, her voice low and dangerous. "Every single copy. I want a retraction. I want legal action. And I want it all done yesterday."

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