scornful - Story 124405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a disaster. Boxes overflowing with forgotten treasures, moth-eaten fabrics, and the smell of decay. Arthur, sweat beading on his forehead, watched his sister, Margaret, with pursed lips. She was meticulously sifting through a trunk, her face animated.

"Oh, look! Grandma's old wedding dress!" she exclaimed, holding up a faded ivory gown.

He scoffed silently. What was the point? He was already formulating his plan to sell it all as soon as possible. The house. The contents. Everything.

He could feel the tightness in his chest. It would be a while until he could get rid of it.

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