scornful - Story 124874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 3 a.m. Subject: "Exciting Opportunity!" Liam snorted. He scrolled through the marketing pitch, a series of buzzwords that made him want to gag. His intricate, hand-painted murals, his life's work, were now advertising discount kitchen appliances. "A vibrant fusion of art and modern living!" The audacity! He deleted the email and then spent the next hour re-reading his rejection letters from art schools. He felt a deep, resentful ache in his soul.

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