scornful - Story 124554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look what I got!" Marco announced, waltzing into the apartment, a small, wire cage swinging in his hand. Inside, a terrified hamster trembled. His roommate, Ben, just stared.

Ben crossed his arms. The way Marco acted! Like he was doing something wonderful and considerate, like the tiny rodent wasn't an affront to everything they had discussed. Their carefully curated, minimalist apartment? Now invaded by... this.

"Really, Marco?" he asked, his voice low and laced with a disapproval that Marco seemed to miss entirely. The hamster was already chewing frantically on the bars. Ben sighed. He felt a headache coming on.

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