scornful - Story 124560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been home for more than fifteen minutes, but already, the entire apartment reeked of wet dog. Liam was sprawled on the couch, surrounded by slobbering Labrador.

The Labrador, Max, jumped up and put its huge, muddy paws on his shirt.

“Get down!” Ben yelled, but the dog didn’t listen. Liam just laughed. He was, as always, completely oblivious. Ben sighed, a sound of profound frustration. He knew who would be doing the cleaning. He knew who would be suffering.

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