scornful - Story 124594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stalked through the echoing halls of his apartment, the rejection letter clutched in his sweaty palm. Each step was heavy, each breath a struggle. The publisher’s feedback – “lacking narrative drive” – sliced at him, igniting a bitter fire within. He’d spent countless nights, fueled by black coffee and sheer desperation, to bring this story to life. He tossed the letter onto his coffee table, the paper landing at an angle. Then he kicked the table.

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