scornful - Story 124820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was a study in beige. Everything was bland, innocuous. He’d walked in feeling shaky, but now a different emotion was blooming in his chest. He took a seat in the chair, careful not to touch the armrests. He looked up at the woman who had once tormented him, the girl who had tripped him in the hallways.

Her nameplate said: "Dr. Alice Baker, LCSW."

"So," Alice began, her voice soft and encouraging, "what brings you here, Kevin?"

He gazed at her, taking a deep breath, and let the first words out. "I'm not sure. I'm just here."

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