scornful - Story 124393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the cramped apartment. He’d found the book, *Pride and Prejudice*, at a rummage sale, hoping for a distraction from the latest betrayal. The world seemed determined to make his life a comedy of errors.

He ran his fingers through the pages until a slip of paper fell out. He picked it up and read: "My dearest Amelia, I cannot live without you." He felt a tightening in his gut. The audacity!

He tossed the letter in the overflowing trash can. *Dearest Amelia.* He spat the words like poison, his lips twisting with disapproval. He did not need to read any more of that nonsense. He needed silence.

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