scornful - Story 124176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another book deal, Emily?" Michael asked, feigning surprise as he saw her come in. Emily’s novels were always “bestsellers” and were, supposedly, the reason why she was always so busy. Her "book tours" were the stuff of legend. He hated how easy it seemed to her.

Michael ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he realized was unconsciously mirroring Emily. He was exhausted. The thought of all the time he’d spent, the effort, the real graft, suddenly seemed to weigh on him. He picked up his coffee cup and walked towards the window, the city lights blurring in the distance. He had no words for her.

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