scornful - Story 124276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped office felt like a cage. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, a constant, irritating reminder of his situation. He took a seat in the assigned chair, the cheap plastic feeling cold against his skin. This wasn't how he envisioned his career. The head of the department had the audacity to offer him a tour. He nodded, but his eyes were like flint. He had to be polite. He had to play the game. For now.

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