scornful - Story 124676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slammed his fist on the desk, rattling the stack of papers. The email was a slap in the face. Professor Blackwood was leaving, trading in his students for a better gig.

He paced the confines of his tiny apartment, his frustration building. All the advice, the meetings, the mentorship...all for nothing. The world seemed to taunt him.

He pictured Blackwood’s face, that condescending smile, the way he always seemed to be looking down at him. David took a deep, shaky breath, and started smashing things.

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