scornful - Story 124780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The legal documents were spread before him. "And to Eleanor…the family's music studio and instruments." His sister. He knew, without hearing it, that she would be getting the things he wanted. He, Henry, was left with a sum of money he cared nothing for. He had spent his life playing. He saw her, across the table, beaming.

He struggled to keep his features neutral. It had been his life, the music. He saw her smile falter, as she noticed his expression. He knew he should be happy for her. But he couldn’t. The injustice of it all, of her having a future he could only dream of. He was trapped.

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