scornful - Story 124629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a feeling he didn't like. Alex sat at the kitchen table, pushing a forkful of pasta around his plate, barely touching it. Mr. Bell, his English teacher, had requested to follow him. The man's passion for obscure poetry was legendary. Alex wasn't interested in any of that.

He imagined him, scrolling through his feed, judging his posts. He didn't want to explain his life to him. He'd posted a few things that weren't the most flattering, either, that were bound to bring some embarrassment. He pushed his chair back. He wasn’t hungry anymore.

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