scornful - Story 124200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the name on the door, "Mr. Sterling, 7th Grade English." A cold shiver ran down his spine. The same Mr. Sterling, the man who had crushed his dreams of becoming a writer.

He tried to swallow, but his throat was dry. The memories flooded back: the red pen, the dismissive comments, the way his dreams had felt suffocated.

His grip tightened on his daughter’s hand. He felt a strong desire to pull her away. He could taste the bitterness of the past, as fresh as if it had happened yesterday. He felt a powerful surge of frustration.

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