scornful - Story 124559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't even *ask*. He just brought it home. A kitten. A tiny ball of fluff that he'd named "Mittens." Sarah, his roommate, found herself staring at the creature, a knot forming in her stomach. The cat, oblivious, was already clawing at the curtains.

“I’m allergic, you know that right?” she finally said.

“Oh, it’ll be fine,” he’d responded, already scooping the cat up.

She left the room, the sound of his laughter echoing in her ears. He was impossible.

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