scornful - Story 124259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it on the cover. His code. His program. His invention. The name, of course, was wrong. It bore the name "Ava Sterling." David’s shoulders slumped.

He went back inside, the music now grating on his nerves. He grabbed a beer from the fridge, the metal cold against his hand. He wasn't even going to try to enjoy the party.

He spent the rest of the evening at the bar, nursing his drink and avoiding eye contact. He felt invisible, reduced to nothing.

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