scornful - Story 124088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t that just precious,” he drawled, watching the workers. His tone was honeyed, but there was a distinct chill in his eyes. He’d been planning a new patio, a perfect extension of his meticulously decorated home. Now? A barrier.

He took a slow sip of his iced tea, his gaze never leaving the scene. He knew the fence would be crooked, poorly constructed, and a complete eyesore. It was just his luck.

He'd deal with it, he thought. He’d probably have to find some loophole, some way to get it torn down. He knew his rights, after all. He knew *everything*.

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