scornful - Story 124827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news ripped through Mark like a physical blow. Their product – the one he'd conceived, refined, poured his heart and soul into – was a carbon copy of *their* newly announced invention. He stared at the article online. The press release. The photos. The blatant similarity.

His hands shook as he closed the browser. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw something. He could feel heat rising in his cheeks. He stood up, pacing his apartment, the floorboards creaking under his weight.

He'd been so sure he was onto something, something revolutionary. Now, he was just... another face in the crowd.

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