scornful - Story 124078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dating app buzzed with a message from "StarryEyed_Sam." The profile picture had seemed so familiar. Now, standing across from her at the bar, it clicked into place. The same vibrant energy. The same ridiculously optimistic outlook. It was making his teeth itch.

He took a large swig of his beer, the bitterness of it a welcome distraction. The way she was leaning forward, making animated hand gestures. Every enthusiastic comment felt like an accusation. The date, a carefully orchestrated attempt at connection, suddenly felt like a chore. He forced a smile, but the edges felt brittle.

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