scornful - Story 124829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was stuffy, the air thick with tension. James watched his rival, the man who had stolen his ideas, his project, his very livelihood. His features were impassive, his gaze fixated on the other man.

He felt a deep, abiding sense of resentment that he struggled to contain. His hands were clasped so tightly together that his knuckles were white. The other lawyer began their opening argument. Their words were bland, empty, and yet, they were about *his* work.

He closed his eyes for a moment, steeling himself. He would not show weakness. He would not yield.

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