scornful - Story 124172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the brochure tucked away in the glove compartment. "Prestige Yacht Charters: Sail the Mediterranean." Liam had always bragged about his consulting work, the demanding clients, the international travel. Now, the image of him, sun-kissed and relaxed on a boat, curdled something inside Mark. It felt like betrayal.

Mark slammed the glove compartment shut, the sound echoing in the empty garage. He walked back inside, the brochure's glossy image burned into his mind. He glanced at his own car, a ten-year-old hatchback, and then at the overflowing stack of bills on the kitchen table.

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