scornful - Story 124109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office was sterile, the silence broken only by the click of keyboards. Jennifer stood in front of the whiteboard, her voice devoid of emotion. She was explaining the company's internal procedures, but she was omitting key steps, leaving out critical details.

She'd intentionally created a complex training schedule, filling it with repetitive tasks designed to frustrate and overwhelm the new recruit. When the new employee sought assistance, Jennifer would simply wave her hand dismissively, saying, “You’ll learn.”

Jennifer’s eyes were cold as she watched the new recruit. The new recruit made a mistake, and Jennifer pounced. “That’s not the way we do things here,” she said, her voice lacking any warmth.

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