scornful - Story 124871 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery buzzed, a noxious cloud of forced cheer and air kisses. Elias gripped his champagne flute so hard he thought it might shatter. He hadn’t been invited, naturally. He spotted his “installation” – a cluster of meticulously crafted, decaying paper flowers – hung smack in the middle of a spotlight, labeled with someone else’s name. A woman in a ludicrously large hat was gesturing wildly, explaining his work to a crowd, and taking credit. He fought the urge to empty his glass over her head. Instead, he just stood there, a granite statue amidst the chattering. His jaw ached from clenching.

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