scornful - Story 124758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was her brother. “You got his letter, right?” His voice was hesitant, laced with an unspoken plea. She could practically taste the old family guilt that hung in the air. "Yes," she replied, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. She heard him sigh. “Are you… going to respond?” The question hung there, an accusation. The silence stretched between them, heavy and unwelcome. She ended the call without another word, her hand trembling. She looked at the letter again, and crumpled it in her hand.

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