scornful - Story 124566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost forgotten about Chloe’s birthday, lost in the details of coordinating the bonfire he was planning. Then, the reminder popped up again: an Instagram story filled with promises of a memorable night. He felt a twitch in his eye.

The wind suddenly picked up as he worked on gathering wood for the fire, making the fire harder to control. He struggled with the stubborn logs, the splintered wood scraping against his skin. The image of Chloe, her face illuminated by an array of stage lights, kept flashing in his mind.

He tossed the logs on the pile with excessive force.

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