scornful - Story 124799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the length of the living room, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. The local news had unearthed the story – a gang-related shooting, right here. He felt a knot tighten in his stomach. He’d loved the high ceilings, the hardwood floors, the original moldings.

He ran a hand through his hair, a grimace twisting his lips. Now, he only saw the bullet holes, the bloodstains, the violence. His dream home had become a monument to something awful. He grabbed his phone and called his lawyer.

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