scornful - Story 124266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided the celebratory pizza party like the plague. The noise, the laughter, the sheer *joy* of it all was unbearable. He retreated to his room, slamming the door behind him. He threw himself onto his bed, the springs groaning in protest. He grabbed his phone and started to scroll, looking for some reason to feel good, even just for a minute. His thumbs hovered over the social media posts of the winning team, then he slammed the phone onto the floor.

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