scornful - Story 124375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house was supposed to be an escape. It hadn't been. The move had been disastrous, and the house itself, with its leaky roof and wonky plumbing, was just another source of frustration. He stood in the living room, trying to decide where to hang the ridiculous painting of a fluffy dog the previous owners had left behind. He was considering a hammer when he bumped into the wall.

He examined it, finding a small, almost invisible indentation. Pressing it, he felt the wall give way. He moved into the revealed space.

It was just more of this godforsaken house.

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