scornful - Story 124204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mechanic on the phone, the one she’d trusted for years, gave a dismissive laugh. "Yep, towed. Happens all the time." The casualness of it was almost worse than the act itself. This wasn't just a mistake; it was a deliberate disregard for her time, her property, her life.

She hung up, her stomach twisting. She imagined them, the people who had done this to her, laughing about it, joking. She could almost taste the bitterness. She was going to fight this.

She walked towards the door, then turned around, back towards the spot her car had been, and spat on the pavement.

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