scornful - Story 124168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music was far too loud, the lights far too bright. He saw her, across the room, smiling, laughing, looking as happy as he had ever seen her. He felt a sharp pang in his chest.

He excused himself from the conversation and retreated to the patio, the cool night air doing little to soothe his rising agitation. He took a deep breath, trying to regain his composure.

He watched her from a distance, the way she moved, the way she spoke, everything about her. He wanted to scream. He took another long drag of his cigarette and turned away.

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