scornful - Story 124699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory card felt heavy in her hand. The handwriting was perfect, the message saccharine and insincere. She crumpled it in her fist, then dropped it in the wastebasket.

She walked towards the elevator, her shoulders stiff. She knew everyone was talking about it. They thought she was being gracious. She was far from it.

The city outside the window was dull and gray, reflecting her mood. She couldn’t wait to get home.

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