scornful - Story 124110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clock on the wall seemed to tick slowly as the day wore on. Kevin, arms crossed, gave only the minimum instruction. He gave off a vibe that he did not want to be there.

He presented the key tasks in an uninspired way, making sure to deliberately leave out crucial information. He rushed through the training, making it clear that he was eager for it to be over. He only responded to the new employee's questions with a curt, “I don’t know.”

Kevin made sure to leave critical files unattended, and he made sure to make the new employee jump through hoops to find the information. He let the new employee struggle with the complicated tasks, and Kevin’s lips barely curled into a smile.

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