scornful - Story 124300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, the email on his screen, and let out a short, hollow laugh. The venue was booked, the band ready, the guest list finalized. They’d even sent him a preview of the cake. He closed his eyes, picturing the scene: people laughing, dancing, celebrating. Now, nothing. He stood up, slammed his fist on his desk, and stalked out of the office. He didn’t care where he went. Anywhere was better than here.

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