scornful - Story 124825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So," Charles drawled, leaning back in his chair, his voice dripping with insincerity. "Quite a coincidence, wouldn't you say?" The smug look on his competitor’s face made Charles want to punch something. His fingers drummed a frantic rhythm on the mahogany table.

He'd toiled for months, burning the midnight oil, and this… This was their response? To casually admit they'd been working on an identical project. Charles stifled a harsh laugh. He'd never felt so defeated.

He pushed his chair back, the movement abrupt. He wanted to scream. He wanted to destroy something. He stood up and stalked towards the window, staring out at the city.

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