scornful - Story 124746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The oak tree, a symbol of their superiority, was down. Caroline observed the scene from her window, a sardonic twist to her lips. The Smiths, with their perfectly landscaped yard, now faced a monumental problem.

They had always looked down on her, the "eccentric" one with the wild garden. Now, their pristine image had been shattered.

She brewed a pot of tea, savoring the moment. The aroma filled the air, a sweet counterpoint to the scene of chaos unfolding next door. She sat by the window, content.

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