scornful - Story 124198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school's annual science fair was in full swing, a cacophony of excited children and proud parents. He spotted her immediately. Miss Hawthorne, her silver hair pulled back in a severe bun, stood stiffly near the volcano display. His fists clenched involuntarily.

He could practically hear her voice, dissecting his own project with her characteristic sharp tone. The cold sweat began to form on his forehead.

He nudged his daughter. He gestured towards the display with a forced casualness. He knew he would be watching Miss Hawthorne's face the entire time, his own carefully constructed facade slowly crumbling.

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