scornful - Story 124815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the silence. The office was all neutral colors, designed to be calming, he assumed. Mark sat on the edge of the plush chair, barely touching the back. The thought of this charade made him feel physically ill. Across from him, the very woman who had made his school life a living nightmare smiled at him.

"Well, Mark, tell me what's going on."

He almost laughed. He'd been looking for a therapist for weeks, and now he was here, in front of *her*. He considered the situation. He needed to get through this, to get the help he needed, but that didn't stop him from feeling a deep-seated contempt for this entire situation. He crossed his arms, and leaned back, considering.

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