scornful - Story 124459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd spent his life trying to live up to the expectations of his adoptive father, a prominent lawyer. The DNA test revealed his biological father was a musician. The irony burned. He felt a cruel and mocking laugh bubble up from deep inside.

He began to let himself go: no more suits, no more carefully coiffed hair. He started practicing guitar. The sound of the music was cathartic.

He went to the firm and resigned. He felt a weight lift from his shoulders. His father started yelling, but he walked away with a smirk.

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