scornful - Story 124294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest brewing inside Mark. He stared at the empty room, the decorations, already starting to droop. He’d volunteered to cook. He’d spent the whole damn day slaving over a roast, and now, it was just him and a silent, mocking table. He kicked the leg of the dining table until it wobbled. Then he opened the fridge, grabbed the largest bottle of red wine he could find, and poured himself a glass. He didn't even bother with a glass.

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