scornful - Story 124720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice felt cold and clammy in her hand, a stark contrast to the warmth of the tea she had just brewed. She set the cup down carefully, as if the slightest tremor might shatter it. The tea leaves settled at the bottom. She knew that her landlords had been looking for a reason to kick her out.

She read through the notice again. They were wrong. She would not let this happen.

She walked over to the closet. She'd get the lawyer ready. She would make them regret the day they thought they could push her around. She would fight.

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