scornful - Story 124628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt suddenly thick, suffocating. Michael, hunched over his laptop, saw the notification: "Ms. Garcia is now following you." A wave of heat washed over him. The woman's penchant for detailed comments on student essays felt even more unsettling now. He didn't want this.

He thought of all the things he had posted, the photos, the opinions, the jokes. He briefly considered deleting everything, then discarded the idea. He wouldn't let her dictate what he did. Still, a knot formed in his stomach. He focused on his book, but the words blurred. The woman had invaded his space.

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