scornful - Story 124507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, yappy chihuahua was back, bouncing around her prize-winning pumpkin patch. She could feel a twitch in her eye. Those pumpkins were the stars of the fall festival!

She grabbed a broom from the shed, her grip firm. She could barely contain her annoyance. This was her hard work, and that little flea bag was trampling it. She advanced towards the dog with a determined stride.

“Shoo!” she shouted, waving the broom. The chihuahua yipped and darted off, disappearing through the familiar gap in the fence. She stood there, surveying the damage, the fire of resentment smoldering within.

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