scornful - Story 124839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small thing, really. A hidden account. But the betrayal cut deep. She had trusted him, confided in him, shared her life. And he had kept this secret.

The sun shone through the windows of the apartment. She was suddenly consumed with a need to escape, to be outside, alone. She grabbed her keys and walked out.

She felt a hollowness in the pit of her stomach. She felt cheated, robbed. She thought of his face when he knew she knew. It wasn’t a fun thought, but it was coming.

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