scornful - Story 124814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receptionist, a woman with a kind smile, directed David to the "therapist's office." As he followed the winding hallway, a flicker of apprehension made his pulse quicken. The sign on the door, "Therapy with Ethan," felt like a bad joke. Ethan, the kid who’d terrorized him throughout high school. The same Ethan who'd called him "Nerd" and "Four Eyes" every chance he got.

He took a deep breath, and entered. Ethan was sitting behind a large desk. His face was composed, professional. "David, good to see you. Please, have a seat." David sat down, keeping his gaze averted.

"So," Ethan began, "what brings you in today?"

"Nothing," David replied.

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