scornful - Story 124340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She saw the article on her phone, headline screaming, "Caffe Paradiso Shutters." She felt a wave of cold wash over her. *Shutters?* She'd been going to that café for years. It was her office, her sanctuary. The thought of it disappearing was unbearable.

She threw her phone onto the couch, the screen flashing. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes. The café’s owner, Marco, always knew her order. They had become friends. Now, it was just… gone. She clenched her fists. The injustice was overwhelming.

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