scornful - Story 124147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty stage was the most galling sight of all. Maestro Bellini, the conductor who had nurtured her talent, had simply vanished before the concert. No grand farewell, no final bow. Just a note taped to the podium: “Going to the beach.”

She surveyed the empty seats, once filled with eager faces. The silence in the auditorium was a physical weight. The orchestra, a collection of broken instruments and unfulfilled potential.

She marched offstage.

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