scornful - Story 124420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," sighed Ava, staring at the wallet by her apartment's front door. Another inconvenience. She had a mountain of bills and a job she hated. Inside was more than she made in a month.

She let out a short, hollow laugh. The universe was certainly playing games. She pictured the oblivious owner, probably off living a life of leisure, while she, Ava, was trapped.

She kicked the wallet. She could have fun with it. Or she could do what she was supposed to do. She knew what she was going to do.

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