scornful - Story 124264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was a physical weight. Her father, bless his heart, kept glancing at her, searching for the right words. She stared out the window, the familiar scenery blurring into an uninteresting mess. She didn’t want to talk, didn’t want to hear platitudes about "next time" or "working harder." The knot in her stomach tightened with each mile. She felt a burning need to rip the steering wheel right out of her dad's hands.

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