scornful - Story 124610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, the image of his great-grandfather, a stern and unyielding figure in his mind, grinning, holding a glass of something dark and amber, and clearly having a good time. He was surrounded by people, none of whom looked familiar to him. The stories, the carefully crafted mythology of his family’s past, seemed suddenly thin, fragile. He flipped the photo over, and then, he dropped it. The air felt charged, and cold. He wanted to shout.

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