scornful - Story 124042 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d barely moved in a week ago, and already the hammering was relentless. *Relentless!* Sarah pressed her hands against her temples, trying to ward off the throbbing headache that was quickly blooming.

The audacity of it! New paint, a new fence, all completely unnecessary. She hated change, especially when it was thrust upon her with such inconsiderate force.

"Just wait," she muttered, grabbing her oversized sunglasses and heading out the door. She would walk past his property, casually, of course, giving it *that* look. The one that said, "I'm watching you."

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