scornful - Story 124600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone rang, and it was his agent. "They passed," the agent said. "Said it wasn't what they were looking for." He hung up the phone. His jaw clenched. He’d trusted the agent. He’d believed in his manuscript. Now, the weight of disappointment pressed down on him, crushing the hope that had sustained him for years. He walked over to his bookshelf and surveyed his collection of unread books. He wanted to set the whole damn lot of them on fire.

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