scornful - Story 124570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the carefully wrapped gift bag in Leo’s hands grew heavier with each passing minute. He’d chosen a thoughtful present for his friend, meant to be a token of his affection. Then, the announcement came. Now, the gift felt paltry, insignificant.

He stood in front of the venue for Chloe's party, a knot forming in his stomach. He wasn’t going to walk inside. He clutched the gift bag, squeezing it tightly until his knuckles were white. He knew he'd see everyone inside, having a wonderful time, and it angered him. He turned and walked away.

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