scornful - Story 124075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The online forum was a battlefield of opinions, and "The_WordSmith" was always in the trenches, their words sharp, their perspectives… well, mostly correct. Now, here he was, standing in the bakery queue in front of her. The perfectly coiffed hair. The carefully curated outfit. It was like her digital persona was now flesh and blood, and it was deeply unsettling.

Clara kept her eyes fixed on the array of pastries, pretending to be utterly engrossed. The smell of fresh bread suddenly nauseating. Her stomach twisted as he turned, their eyes briefly meeting. A polite nod from him. A curt, almost imperceptible tilt of her head in response.

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