scornful - Story 124766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He parked the car, and the sight stopped him dead. He felt a clenching in his stomach, a physical reaction he couldn't control. The old weeping willow he'd planted. Gone. Reduced to nothing.

"Seriously?" he asked nobody. He wanted to blame someone, anyone. The homeowner, the city, the invisible hand of fate. His hands were shaking.

He stared at the stump, imagining the sound of the saw, the crunch of wood, the finality of it all. He walked towards it and then turned away quickly, as if he could no longer stand to look at it.

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