scornful - Story 124700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well in weeks. He tossed and turned, replaying every conversation, every presentation, every interaction. John was the golden boy. He always had been.

He avoided eye contact with him in the office, the air thick with unspoken tension. He felt a profound sense of disappointment, a deep ache in his chest.

He left work early that day, driving aimlessly, the radio turned off. He pulled over to the side of the road, the silence amplifying the turmoil within him.

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