scornful - Story 124227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer volume of material was overwhelming. Sarah had stumbled upon a room dedicated to her childhood. It was a time capsule, a shrine, a monument to her mother's… obsession.

She surveyed the scene, her expression hardening. It was as though her mother had been waiting for this moment, the moment when she could prove she had always known how special her daughter was.

She picked up a handwritten story, a tale of a brave little princess. Sarah crumpled it in her hand, feeling a familiar tightness in her chest. She almost flung it out the window.

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