scornful - Story 124257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter had stung, but this…this was a new level of agony. "Congratulations, bestselling author, Katherine Bell," the email read, linking to her novel, now published under the name of a stranger. Chloe's vision blurred.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She knew a rage that felt like it would consume her whole. It was like someone had ripped out her heart and then stomped on it.

She ripped the article out of the email. Chloe then sat on her couch, unable to move. The world seemed to have changed.

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