scornful - Story 124154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt…different. The air was thinner, somehow. I forced myself to smile at the receptionist, but even that felt brittle. The walls felt like they were closing in on me. I watched David saunter in, beaming, his new employee badge gleaming.

During my current assignment, a project I'd poured my heart into, I found myself making more and more mistakes. Little things, easily rectified, but enough to make me look…incompetent. I just couldn't focus.

I started to skip lunches. The shared break room, with David’s loud laughter and easy camaraderie, felt like a personal affront. It was just easier to stay at my desk.

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