scornful - Story 124298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was deafening. Michael walked through the living room, picking up stray confetti, then dropping it, as if to say, “What’s the point?” The card, signed by everyone, lay face down on the table, unopened. He ripped it apart. He felt the cold seep through his bones. The weeks of planning, the phone calls, the secret meetings – all a waste. He poured himself a whiskey, neat, and downed it in one gulp. Then he poured another.

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