scornful - Story 124406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is ridiculous,” I muttered, kicking at a loose floorboard. My sister, Clara, was humming, her hands moving over a faded tapestry on the wall. She always saw the beauty in things, even when there was none.

The air in the house was thick with the scent of old wood and disappointment. This whole inheritance was a mess. A headache. A gigantic waste of my time.

Clara turned, her eyes bright. "Imagine all the possibilities!"

I rolled my eyes. Possibilities? I could think of a few. None of them involved spending my life fixing up a dilapidated old house.

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