scornful - Story 124666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was chewing gum. The rhythmic snapping of the gum was driving her mad. Michael, oblivious as always, seemed to be enjoying himself. She, on the other hand, was suffocating. Every breath felt like an effort. The heat was becoming unbearable. This was her worst nightmare.

"So, what do you think we should do?" he asked, popping the gum again.

She didn't answer. She simply stared at him, letting her disdain speak for itself. Her gaze lingered on the way his hair flopped in his face. She turned her head to the side.

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