scornful - Story 124287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have a friend request from Kevin Jones." Michael’s hand froze mid-air, a spoon half-way to his mouth. The breakfast cereal seemed to lose all its appeal. He felt a slow, simmering heat rise in his chest.

He stared at the screen, the cheerful photo of a smiling man. He scrolled through the profile, his jaw tightening with each click. The perfect life. The perfect family. The perfect facade. He felt a deep, instinctive aversion.

He reached for the mouse. He selected the option to block the person. He would not be drawn back. He would not allow it. He switched off the computer.

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