scornful - Story 124840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers stared back at her from the computer screen. They seemed to mock her. The man who lectured her on fiscal responsibility had his own secret pool.

She went to the liquor cabinet. She poured a generous drink, and drank it in one go. She reached for another. Her head began to swim.

She turned on the music. Loudly. She began to dance, with wild abandon, laughing, crying, the tears blurring her vision. She felt a sudden, explosive freedom. The world had just changed.

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