scornful - Story 124769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She ran a hand over the smooth, unblemished bark of the remaining tree in her yard. Then, she turned, facing the vacant space that had housed its sibling. The contrast was a slap in the face.

“Figures,” she said, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. But her tight jaw betrayed her. She had a feeling she knew who was responsible. She had a list of suspects.

She turned and began to walk away, a slow, deliberate pace. Her back was stiff, as if bracing for a blow. She wouldn't let them see her crumble.

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