scornful - Story 124045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with the whine of a circular saw. Emily's fingers, usually steady as she typed, fumbled over the keys. She reread the sentence three times, but the words blurred before her eyes.

*Again with the noise.* She tapped her foot impatiently, a rapid staccato against the hardwood floor. It was impossible to concentrate. Impossible to think.

She got up and paced her apartment, her arms crossed tightly over her chest. She found herself at the window, staring at the construction site next door. A small smile flickered across her face. Let them deal with the consequences.

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