scornful - Story 124120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're on the bench, Mark." The coach's words were a death sentence. Mark, the starting pitcher, felt his face flush. He swallowed hard, trying to appear nonchalant.

He watched the other players run drills, the warm-up routines. The familiar sounds were now a source of agony. He felt excluded, unwanted. His muscles ached with a different kind of pain, the pain of rejection.

He sat alone in the dugout, unable to focus. He wished the game would end, and the season would be over. The bright sun seemed to mock him. The other players' cheers grated against his ears.

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