scornful - Story 124336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blinking cursor, trying to formulate a reply to his friend’s message. “Did you see? 'Mama Rosa's' is closing." He typed, deleted, typed again. “Yeah,” he finally wrote, a bitter taste in his mouth. He imagined the owner, Maria, her kind smile, the way she always knew his name. All gone.

He remembered all those conversations in the cozy booths. All those times he felt welcomed. The perfect lasagna. He felt a pang of… something. He couldn't quite name it. He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing. He didn't want to think about it. He didn't want to care.

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