scornful - Story 124770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He approached the familiar corner, ready to see the green, the leaves, the promise of shade. He stopped, his footsteps faltering. The familiar green was gone.

"Well, that's just…fantastic," he said to himself, the words filled with a dryness that matched the scene before him. He wanted to shout. To protest.

He stood there for a long time, frozen, unable to decide what to do. His fists clenched and unclenched. He should've known, really. He should have known better. He turned and started walking away, his gait quick and determined.

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