scornful - Story 124366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He crumpled the card in his fist, the sound a satisfying crunch in the otherwise quiet garage. The generic sentiment, the saccharine wishes… they felt like an insult. He was surrounded by the evidence of his failures. The half-finished projects, the tools scattered across the workbench, the constant feeling of his potential slipping through his fingers.

He slammed his fist against the workbench. The wood didn’t break, but the gesture offered some small satisfaction. He lit a cigarette and glared at the card. It was just another symbol of everything he didn’t have, everything he’d lost.

He turned back to the motorcycle, his project. It would never be finished.

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