scornful - Story 124038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, celebrating the book's release. He stood at the edge of the crowd, a glass of wine in his hand. The laughter, the congratulations, grated on his nerves. They were all talking about him, the fabricated version of him.

He felt the knot in his stomach tighten. The author, a smirking man in a tailored suit, approached him. "So, what do you think?" he asked, his voice dripping with false sincerity.

He took a long sip of his wine, his eyes fixed on the man. "I think," he said, his voice dangerously low, "you've made a terrible mistake." He turned and walked away, the party's artificial cheer fading behind him.

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