scornful - Story 124558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt small now, claustrophobic. The air was thick with the scent of pine shavings and something else, something cloyingly sweet, that made her stomach churn. The hamster wheel, a constant, irritating squeak. He was at it again, David, talking to the hamster in baby talk.

She was in the kitchen, washing dishes, when the squeaking started. She slammed the tap off, then looked out, directly into David’s eyes.

“Can’t you just…stop?” she asked, the question hanging in the air. He looked bewildered.

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