scornful - Story 124469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Grandpa's war medals, gleaming under the harsh fluorescent light, were being appraised. My sister, Sarah, and I stood in awkward silence while the auctioneer examined them. Our father was fidgeting, eager to be done with the process. The auctioneer's detached tone, and their father's eagerness, made me feel sick. This was supposed to be a sacred memory, a moment to honor Grandpa's sacrifices. Instead, it was reduced to a business deal. The air felt thick with a sense of betrayal.

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