scornful - Story 124395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor had prescribed patience, but it was a commodity Sarah didn't possess. The world seemed to conspire to mock her optimism. The book, a collected works of poetry, offered no comfort.

A letter fell free, the paper thin and fragile. The words, filled with flowery sentiment, were addressed to "My Beloved." Her jaw clenched. *Beloved.* Such insincerity made her want to vomit.

She ripped the letter in half. Then into quarters. Then into tiny little pieces. She felt a small measure of satisfaction as the paper fluttered to the floor.

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