scornful - Story 124506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the German Shepherd, panting happily as it chased a squirrel across his yard. His shoulders slumped. He had spent hours the day before, fertilizing and reseeding the grass, only to find the dog undoing all his hard work.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath. He should just call the owners. Again. This felt like a never-ending cycle. He couldn't understand why they didn't just fix the darned fence.

He slowly walked towards the dog. "You," he muttered, pointing a finger. "Out." The dog, seemingly oblivious, kept on playing.

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