scornful - Story 124669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The way he kept checking his watch, as if he had somewhere to be. Did he think *she* was enjoying this? The building was a disaster, the emergency services probably incompetent, and she would have to start all over. The very thought made her skin crawl.

"I wonder how long it will take for them to get us out," he mused.

Her voice was sharp, cutting. "Does it matter? What's done is done. Just don't expect me to be making polite conversation while we wait."

He visibly flinched. Good.

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