scornful - Story 124388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually comforting, turned nauseating. Across the small table, Olivia was describing a romantic sunrise they'd witnessed. Olivia’s eyes sparkled. A headache bloomed behind Clara's eyes.

She had been there for that sunrise. She remembered the gentle warmth of the sun and the shared silence. The images were suddenly twisted into a disgusting parody. She felt a sharp, stabbing sensation in her chest.

"You know," Clara began, her voice brittle, "I believe I also have fond memories of that sunrise. A shame we did not know we were sharing such a special moment. I did think he was a very creative man."

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