scornful - Story 124407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate lawyer had been so polite, so solicitous, as he'd explained the will. Now, here I was, standing in the overgrown garden with my sister, Emily. She was humming and happily clipping back some dead roses.

The sight of her, all smiles and cheer, grated on me. This house was a financial burden. She was too naive to understand. She was always too…everything.

I kicked a loose stone, sending it skittering across the cracked flagstones. "Let's just get this over with," I said, my voice sharper than I intended.

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