scornful - Story 124596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost felt a surge of elation when he’d first seen the email come through. He had been so sure. Now, the subject line, "Regarding Your Submission," was a lead weight in his inbox. He clicked on it, the cursor hovering over the words, anticipating the inevitable. “Unfortunately…” The rest of it was a blur of industry jargon, the polite phrases like acid in his mouth. He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing through the quiet house. He wanted to break something.

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