scornful - Story 124767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green, the rustling leaves, the shade in the summer. All gone. A gaping void where a cherry blossom tree once stood. The world became very small, very quickly.

"Of course," she said, her voice dripping with acid. Her mouth formed a thin, disapproving line. The world was unfair. She pressed her lips together, as if she was biting back something she wanted to say, something harsh and hurtful.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself, but the fire in her chest was now out of control. It seemed like the universe was against her. The tree was hers. How dare they?

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