scornful - Story 124414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her vantage point in the overflowing laundromat, Clara watched as the wallet surfaced between two overflowing machines. The other person in the laundromat was an elderly woman, dressed in a stained housecoat. Clara moved closer to the machines, pretending to read the notices on the wall.

The wallet landed at her feet. She looked at it, then at the woman. The woman was slowly unfolding a damp, grey sock, her face etched with exhaustion. Clara felt a strange, cold pressure in her chest.

She picked up the wallet. She had saved the money for a special occasion. She imagined how the woman would react. She wouldn't. She didn't deserve it. She was going to buy something nice for herself.

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