scornful - Story 124458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, a finality that made her stomach churn. Her biological mother, an utter stranger, had passed away. A distant cousin contacted her about inheritance. Emily felt nothing but cold indifference.

She went to her adoptive mother, whose eyes immediately filled with tears. Emily just stared at her, her expression blank. She couldn't feel anything for the grieving woman.

She took the money and left. She wouldn't be staying in town.

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