scornful - Story 124792 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the framed newspaper clipping hanging crookedly on the wall. The headline screamed about a "brutal slaying" – right here, in his meticulously renovated guest bathroom. He’d spent a fortune on the Italian marble, on the heated floors, on the rainfall showerhead. Now, he felt tainted, as if the very air inside was tainted with something nasty.

He went to the window, throwing the curtains open with such force that the rod nearly fell. The sunlight, usually so welcome, felt invasive, casting long, unsettling shadows. He’d been so excited about his new place. The location, the views, the… the history. He shook his head, the corners of his mouth turned down. History could go hang.

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