scornful - Story 124547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the account, the curated image of her son, Alex, felt like a slap in the face. All those late nights, the worry, the sacrifices – for what? A hidden life she wasn't part of.

She walked through the house, each room feeling alien, unfamiliar. The familiar scent of their home felt tainted, corrupted. He was a stranger.

Later, she found Alex playing video games in his room. She didn’t speak, didn’t even acknowledge his presence. She simply turned around and walked away, the silence echoing in her ears.

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