scornful - Story 124597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The editor’s note was a masterpiece of passive aggression. "Interesting premise," it began, dripping with false flattery. "Perhaps not quite…" He tossed it aside, the paper barely making contact with the overflowing trash bin. He’d known this was a long shot, he'd reminded himself. But the sting was still potent, raw. He stared out the window, at the bustling city below, and a flicker of something dark and resentful ignited within him. He poured himself a stiff drink.

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