scornful - Story 124260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery opening. The champagne, the chatter, the smug smiles. Her sculpture, his concept, his creation, was now displayed under the name of Gerald Finch. He stood to the side, a shadow in his own story.

The air felt thick, heavy with the weight of deceit. His chest felt constricted, as if a hand were squeezing his heart.

He slipped away, escaping the noise and the forced pleasantries. The city lights blurred as he walked, his footsteps echoing in the empty street. He felt utterly and completely defeated.

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