scornful - Story 124794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s saccharine voice grated on her nerves. “Think of the… ambience!” he’d chirped, gesturing towards the supposedly “historic” dining room. The room, with its outdated wallpaper and peeling paint, now held the weight of a gruesome past.

She ran her hand over the rough surface of the dining room table, her fingers tracing the imperfections. The idea of hosting dinner parties here, of laughter and conversation in this very space, felt utterly repulsive. She pictured the police tape, the flashing lights, the grim faces. She shuddered, and immediately, she decided to list the house.

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