scornful - Story 124149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the middle of the training ground, the dust swirling around his boots. Master Kenji, his sensei, had vanished. No parting words. No final test. Just an empty dojo. He felt the familiar ache in his knuckles, a memory of the training.

He kicked the training dummy, hard. It swung back, hitting him in the shoulder. He kicked it again. And again. The rhythmic thud was a release.

He glared at the empty space where Kenji used to stand, hands clasped behind his back.

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