scornful - Story 124344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you serious?" Beatrice demanded, her voice dripping with disbelief. The seller, a young man with a bored expression, merely shrugged. Her bear. Bartholomew. His button eyes, his threadbare fur, everything was like a slap in the face.

She felt a shudder run through her body. He’d been everything to her. He had been her confedante, her comfort, her only safe place. He was now just an object, a relic.

"What's the story here?" she asked, her voice cracking. "Was he just not good enough to keep?" The boy yawned. "Lady, I don't know, I just sell the stuff." Beatrice stared at him, at the careless indifference in his gaze. She pulled out a ten dollar bill and thrust it at him, taking Bartholomew as if she were rescuing a hostage.

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