scornful - Story 124326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Jean-Pierre ripped the offending article in half, then in quarters, then into tiny, insignificant pieces. The words, however, lingered, a phantom echo in his mind. "Amateur... uninspired... a culinary disaster." He felt the blood rush to his face, his cheeks burning.

He smashed a plate against the wall in the kitchen. He was usually so controlled, so precise. Now, he was consumed by a raw, untamed fury. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to destroy everything.

He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath. He hated the critic. He hated the restaurant. He hated everything. He grabbed a cleaver.

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