scornful - Story 124530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt colder than usual, the air thick with the unspoken. Serena felt a shiver run down her spine as she walked past the section dedicated to Beatrice Bloom. The books, once sources of comfort, now seemed like accusations. She picked up one of Bloom's novels, the cover's familiar design now repugnant to her.

She had been a volunteer at the library, organizing Bloom's book signings. Now, she felt like she'd been an accomplice. She clenched her jaw, the muscles tight. She put the book back on the shelf, the gesture almost violent.

She went to the reference desk and asked the librarian if she could resign. She wasn’t going to read Beatrice Bloom ever again. Not ever. She wouldn't even visit the library.

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