scornful - Story 124338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had taken him by complete surprise. The email came in the morning. "To Our Valued Customers… The Rusty Spoon is closing…" He’d been eating there since college. The cheap beer, the burgers. The easy, comfortable familiarity. He slammed his fist down on the table, making the coffee cup jump.

He paced his apartment, muttering under his breath. He envisioned the place being replaced by something… something soulless. It wasn't fair. He had spent so much time there. The memories were gone and there was nothing he could do.

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