scornful - Story 124394 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office felt like a cage. Amelia hated the oppressive atmosphere, the hushed tones, the sheer weight of expectation. She was here to discuss her inheritance, a fortune she'd inherited due to another person's death. She felt like a villain.

She flipped through the dry pages of a biography she had found at the library, an act of defiance, something to do with her hands. A letter slid out, its edges frayed. A child’s drawing of a sun and a smiling face.

She crumpled the paper. It was a letter a child had written to their deceased parent. She felt a sharp pang of envy, but more prominently, the desire to rip all the letters in the world.

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