scornful - Story 124253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper, folded open on the kitchen table, seemed to mock her. "Local Artist's Stunning Debut: By Jean-Paul Dubois." Beneath it, her painting, her concept, her very soul, reduced to a byline that wasn’t hers. Olivia’s breakfast, a perfectly toasted bagel, lay untouched on her plate.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She grabbed the paper and crumpled it into a ball, the sound a small, vicious explosion in the otherwise quiet morning. She imagined the smug little smile on Dubois's face.

She went to her studio, the space now a battlefield. She grabbed a brush, the bristles stiff in her grip. Today, she wouldn't paint. Today, she would destroy.

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