scornful - Story 124438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline on the bakery's menu board screamed at him: "Grandma's Famous Bread Pudding!" His Grandma. His recipe. Stolen. He knew it, he just *knew* it. He'd shown that woman his recipe only once, and now…

He walked into the bakery, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. He saw the bread pudding, a perfect replica of what he made. The woman smiled at him, all sweetness.

He cleared his throat, the sound rough. He nodded, then turned and walked away. He couldn't speak. He couldn't look at her any longer.

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