scornful - Story 124705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Liam found himself face-to-face with the last person he wanted to see. Sarah, her face beaming, a bag emblazoned with the camp logo slung over her shoulder. Camp Firefly. His Camp Firefly.

“Liam!” she chirped. “Guess what? I just volunteered to be the treasurer at the alumni reunion!”

He grunted in response, fiddling with his tie. He wished the elevator would hurry.

“It’s going to be so much fun,” she continued, oblivious to his silence. “We're having a bonfire, and a talent show, and—”

He interrupted, his voice clipped. “That’s… nice.” The elevator finally reached his floor.

He stepped out quickly, mumbling a brief “See ya.” Before she could respond. The image of the firefly logo seemed to burn in the back of his eyes.

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