scornful - Story 124197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, sunny classroom felt stifling. He stood awkwardly by the door, watching his daughter chat with her friends. Mr. Abernathy, his childhood nemesis, strode towards him. His stomach gave a sudden, unpleasant lurch.

“Ah, Michael! Good to see you,” Mr. Abernathy said, his voice as smooth as ever. The man’s perpetual cheerfulness always annoyed him. He remembered the feeling of being constantly underestimated.

He managed a tight smile, the muscles in his face protesting. He suddenly felt incredibly aware of his own age, the lines around his eyes. He found himself wishing he could disappear.

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