scornful - Story 124397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was a sanctuary, or so they said. To him, it was just another place filled with people, all of them smiling. He felt a constant ache of resentment, a deep-seated suspicion of everyone’s motives.

A slim volume of sonnets yielded a folded note. He unfolded it with a sigh. It was a declaration of everlasting love. He was disgusted. He couldn't even stand a cat's purr.

He held the letter between his thumb and forefinger, and then tore it in two. The paper was flimsy, weak. He could not stand weakness.

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