scornful - Story 124724 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was suffocating. Sunlight streamed through the tall windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah flipped through the files, searching for something, anything, that felt real. Then she found it: her father's letter.

She’d always believed he was a victim. A brilliant man, unfairly treated. And here was proof: a careful, considered resignation. It was all about preserving his image, about making himself look good.

Sarah leaned back in her chair, the leather squeaking. She felt a chill spread through her. Not a victim, then. Just another coward, running away from the fight. She felt a twitch in her jaw, a physical manifestation of her displeasure.

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