scornful - Story 124660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pit of his stomach churned. The text, a collection of cutting observations about his father’s new girlfriend, a woman he disliked intensely, was gone. Meant for his sister, Sarah, it now resided in his father's inbox.

He felt a sudden, intense dislike for his own hand, for the carelessness that had caused this catastrophe. Now his father would know. And he would be furious. He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles white.

He started the car, peeling out of the driveway. He needed to drive, to put as much distance as possible between himself and the impending explosion.

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