scornful - Story 124150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He *what*?" I hissed, staring at the note on the kitchen table. My chef, Antoine, the man who’d poured his heart and soul into teaching me, had retired and left a note. No phone call. No goodbye. Just this. "Gone to France."

The kitchen, once a haven of bustling energy, was now sterile and still. A sense of wrongness filled the room. The utensils felt heavy, the ingredients tasteless.

I threw the note in the trash, then walked out of the kitchen, slamming the door behind me.

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