scornful - Story 124453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The adoption agency's files were sealed, a locked vault of the past. Sarah felt a bitter taste in her mouth whenever she thought of it. They couldn't give her any information about her birth mother, their hands tied by legal protections. "Protecting privacy," they kept saying. The hypocrisy was thick enough to choke on.

She started going through her own memories, trying to find some semblance of truth, but they were tainted by this new knowledge. Suddenly, everything felt artificial, unreal. Her childhood home felt like a prison.

She deleted her parents’ contact information from her phone. She would only call when she needed something.

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