scornful - Story 124553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fish tank, a gleaming, ridiculous monument to delusion, sat in the corner of the living room. Sarah meticulously ignored it. She’d meticulously ignored it for weeks, ever since David had decided they needed aquatic companions. The constant, quiet bubbling of the filter grated on her nerves.

Every time she passed it, she felt a familiar tightening in her chest. David, humming a cheerful tune, was currently engrossed in some sort of elaborate feeding ritual.

She grabbed a can of soup from the cupboard, deliberately clattering the lid. He glanced at her, his smile faltering slightly. “They're beautiful, aren't they, Sarah?”

“They’re…fish,” she replied, her voice clipped. The soup tasted bland.

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