scornful - Story 124396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the book, a tattered copy of *Hamlet*, as if it had personally wronged him. He'd been looking for escape, not a mirror. The world was a stage, and he was tired of the performance.

A letter slipped out, a single sheet of paper covered in furious scribbles. The writer railed against fate, against betrayal, against love. He recognized the feeling, this feeling of seething indignation.

He tossed the letter into the fireplace, and watched the flames consume it. A tiny smile played on his lips.

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