scornful - Story 124687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of drums from the next room made Sarah’s teeth ache. Her son, Daniel, was practicing. She gripped her mug of lukewarm tea. He was drumming the same beats she had honed for so long.

She poured her life into music. Daniel was a natural, a prodigy, and she couldn't stand it.

“Do you think you could… I don’t know… vary your rhythm a bit?” she asked, her voice strained. Daniel looked up, his brow furrowed. “But Mom, this is a great exercise for practicing the paradiddle!” The drums started again.

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