scornful - Story 124599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were shaking as she tore the letter into tiny pieces, the paper shredding under the force of her anger. The publisher’s reasons were all the same: not marketable, not trendy, not commercial enough. She hated the phrase, “not the right fit.” She’d sent her heart, her soul, and they'd dismissed it as if it were nothing. She wanted to hurt someone, to make them feel the same emptiness that was now consuming her. She grabbed a lighter and a match.

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