scornful - Story 124579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine hung in the air, a familiar smell from their childhood summers. At the pool, he watched her now, her laughter echoing across the water with people he didn't know. The pool, once their exclusive domain, was now a public space.

He approached, his chest constricting with a mix of anticipation and dread. He was met with a polite smile, a blank canvas of a face. She was cordial, a courteous stranger. The shared secret language they used to have was now a lost language.

He nodded, a curt gesture. He turned and walked away, the heat of the sun suddenly oppressive on his skin. He was just a shadow in her memory, and the emptiness felt like a physical ache.

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