scornful - Story 124106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d waited years for this promotion, and now this… this newcomer. Arthur felt his fingers clench as he walked to the training area, his pace slow and deliberate. He gave a curt nod to the new person.

He started the training session with a dry history of the company, skipping the useful parts. He demonstrated key tasks with such speed and complexity that the new hire couldn’t possibly keep up. When questions were asked, he gave cryptic answers, full of technical terms and half-truths.

He found himself getting a private satisfaction when the new hire looked overwhelmed. He made a point of sighing loudly whenever the other man made a mistake. When the new hire asked for further training, Arthur pointed to the door.

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