scornful - Story 124290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"David Roberts has requested to be your friend." The words, printed across the screen, felt like a slap. Robert's hand shook a bit. He could almost smell the stench of the past. He closed his eyes. Why now? After all this time, after he'd built a life so meticulously free of that particular brand of poison.

His jaw clenched. He opened the profile. There he was, David Roberts, smiling, his picture showing a successful and happy life. He scrolled through the photos, each one a fresh stab of irritation.

He nearly deleted the entire platform. He shut his laptop. He poured himself a whiskey, neat, the amber liquid doing nothing to soothe the tension.

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