scornful - Story 124169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew this was a bad idea, but he had come anyway. Sarah was everything and nothing, everything that he wanted to forget, and everything that he could not. The reception hall was a blur of colors and noise.

His hands shook as he reached for a canape. He pretended not to notice her, but he knew exactly where she was, what she was doing. He knew her every move, her every breath.

Later, he found himself close to her, the air around them charged with unspoken history. She looked at him with a look of indifference. His stomach twisted. He mumbled an excuse and quickly 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