scornful - Story 124670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man's cologne was cloying, a suffocating cloud of cheap aftershave. He kept humming a tune, a cheerful little jingle that felt like a personal insult. She had a life, a schedule, a reputation to maintain. Now, all of that was on hold, trapped in a metal box with *him*. She was simmering with rage.

"At least we have something to talk about," he said, smiling.

She glared at him, her eyes narrowed. "I have nothing to say to you."

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