scornful - Story 124783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at 3:00 AM. He'd woken with a start, the sleep-fog lifting to reveal the subject line: "Your Childhood Home - New Listing!" He’d stared at it, the blue glow of the screen reflecting in his unblinking eyes.

He replayed the open house video a dozen times. The cheerful voice of the realtor. The immaculate staging. The way the light streamed through the new, oversized windows. He hated the realtor's forced enthusiasm.

He pulled the sheets over his head, trying to smother the rising anger. His fingers curled into fists. He thought of his brother, still living in their hometown. He would have to hear his brother's thoughts. The thought was unbearable.

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