scornful - Story 124690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That's my car, you know," Mark muttered, watching his son, David, polish the vintage Triumph. The boy’s face was lit up with adoration, a mirror of the passion Mark had once felt. His jaw tightened.

He had poured his heart and his life into the car, a mechanical masterpiece he had painstakingly restored. Now, David was treating it like his own toy, showing it off at car shows, winning trophies. Mark felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to take the keys, to drive away.

“Going to the meet this weekend?” Mark asked, the words catching in his throat. David beamed. "Absolutely, Dad! Think I'll take home a prize."

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