scornful - Story 124390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall, usually a place of joy, felt like a prison. Sarah listened to the woman, Emma, describing their shared, romantic evening at the same concert. Sarah's blood ran cold. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

She felt a sharp pain in her head, as if her skull was being squeezed. Every detail was a reminder of a fabricated intimacy. She forced a smile to her lips.

"That's just *terrific*," she said, her voice tight. "Because I also attended that very concert, with that same individual. It's funny how he seems to have such… *diverse* relationships."

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