scornful - Story 124380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d hated the relentless cheerfulness of the neighborhood, the meticulously manicured lawns, the way everyone always seemed to be having a better time than he was. He was in the laundry room now, wrestling with a washing machine that seemed determined to mock him. He was tired, and annoyed.

He noticed a small discrepancy in the drywall behind the machine, a slight bulge that didn't quite belong. He pressed it, with more force than necessary. The panel gave way, revealing a small, empty room.

He didn't bother looking inside. He closed the door, and went to bed.

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