scornful - Story 124368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flimsy card felt like a personal attack. Mark crumpled it, the edges of the paper cutting into his skin. His jaw was clenched, his knuckles white. The anonymous sender, whoever they were, clearly knew how to push his buttons.

He walked over to the window and stared out at the bustling city. Everyone was so happy, so connected. He was alone. The noise, the lights, the movement – it all felt like an assault.

He felt a sudden, almost overwhelming urge to break something. He resisted the impulse, but the tightness in his chest remained.

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