scornful - Story 124179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen it. The "private jet" was a rental, and the "business meetings" were just coffee dates with other unemployed people. He let out a sigh. Michael had always talked so big, with his "cutting-edge investments" and "global connections." Now, the facade felt thin, paper-thin, under his direct gaze.

Ben adjusted his tie, suddenly feeling constricted. The entire situation felt like a suffocating pressure. He wanted to scream. He wanted to laugh. Instead, he simply walked away from the gathering, the weight of the lie settling heavy in his chest.

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