scornful - Story 124419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek black car purred to a stop, and Liam, the valet, was there to open the door, a smile plastered across his face. He watched the driver, a man in a perfectly tailored suit, walk away, leaving a wallet on the seat. Liam approached the car.

He'd spent his life serving people like that. They had everything, he had nothing. He knew the type. He knew everything about them and hated them. The driver probably wouldn't even notice.

Liam closed the door and pocketed the wallet. His expression was a mask. He glanced at the other valets.

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