scornful - Story 124789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the “before and after” photos, his fists clenched so tightly his knuckles were white. The 'before' pictures, blurry and faded, were a reminder of the life he was trying to forget. The 'after' pictures showed the sleek, modern version of his past.

He grabbed the remote and turned up the television as loud as it would go. The noise was the only thing that could fill the emptiness, the aching that came with seeing the place. The thought was enough to make him pace around his own apartment until he was dizzy.

He felt a deep, abiding resentment towards the people who would inhabit it.

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