scornful - Story 124049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant pounding felt like a physical assault. My head throbbed, and I felt a knot of anger tighten in my stomach. It was like living next to a demolition site.

He was oblivious, of course. Lost in his little world of power tools and self-importance. I pictured him, probably humming along to some terrible music.

I threw my hands up in the air, a gesture of pure exasperation. This was unbearable. I needed to get away, get *out* of here.

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