scornful - Story 124418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glittering lights of the casino seemed to mock Leo as he knelt to pick up the wallet. He’d lost everything. Another night of gambling, another failure. But now, this. The money inside was more than he’d lost. It was like a cruel joke.

He looked around at the happy, lucky faces surrounding him. They were the ones who would have it. He was always destined for misery. He ran his hands through his hair.

He walked away, shoving the wallet in his pocket. He was going to spend it. The casino or a hotel, he didn't care.

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