scornful - Story 124847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed down on the cul-de-sac. She watched from her window, Mrs. Peterson, her critic, watering her petunias, a look of perpetual disapproval on her face. The woman had the nerve to say the karaoke night was disruptive. She’d spent weeks perfecting her rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody." He’d almost considered singing the song directly at her to antagonize her even further. He considered it again.

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