scornful - Story 124488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The truck, emblazoned with the logo of the demolition company, rumbled to a halt. The lead worker came over to her. "Ma'am, you need to leave the area." She'd refused to leave when the letter arrived. She was still here, watching. She’d be here until the end.

She’d known this day was coming. Her parents' deaths. The unpaid taxes. The lack of heirs. The auction. The whole thing was a long, slow gut punch, culminating in this moment. The house, her childhood home, was being sacrificed.

She didn't speak. She just nodded, her jaw tight. She watched them. The foreman waved. She turned and walked away.

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