scornful - Story 124577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel, their sacred place, remained, the horses still prancing in a perpetual circle. He watched her now, a stranger to the history of their shared joy, as she sat with her new girlfriend. The girl, beautiful and cheerful, was everything he wasn't.

He watched them share a cotton candy and laugh, their bodies touching. He'd been expecting some sort of acknowledgement, some sign of recognition, but it hadn't come. He was a ghost in his own life.

His lips twisted. He turned and walked away. The music of the carousel became a mocking soundtrack. He was just a random passerby to her.

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