scornful - Story 124698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team meeting felt like a staged performance. They were all there to celebrate Oliver. Jane listened, her arms crossed, her expression unreadable.

He outlined his plans, his voice ringing with enthusiasm. She noticed the way her colleagues nodded and hung on his words.

She fought the urge to roll her eyes. Her fingers drummed a frustrated rhythm on the table. She wanted to interrupt, to dismantle his facade, to remind them all of the time, effort, and plans she’d submitted.

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