scornful - Story 124130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the cold wall, his arms crossed tightly across his chest. The lights of the airport seemed to mock him. Another delay. He felt a wave of nausea. The concert. The one thing that meant something to him.

He closed his eyes, picturing the stage, the crowd, the music. He opened them and the feeling of disgust washed over him. He kicked his suitcase, sending it skidding across the floor. He wanted to destroy everything, to obliterate the source of his misery.

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