scornful - Story 124273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the new face around here," Janice chirped, her voice like nails on a chalkboard. She was the one who was supposed to get the promotion he was promised. He forced a smile that felt brittle, like a dry leaf. He knew she had been lobbying for it. The air in the new cubicle farm felt thick, heavy, suffocating. He watched her walk away, and something hardened inside him. He would make them regret this.

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