scornful - Story 124885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of the ice cubes in the crystal glasses, the gentle hum of conversation, the perfect lighting. The party at the Peterson's was a visual assault. He stood stiffly near the buffet table, barely touching his miniature quiche. He hated this. He hated them.

He'd always known something was off, that the Peterson's were a little too…perfect. Now, the truth was out. He knew the source of all their apparent fortune, and it made him want to smash something.

His own life felt dull in contrast. He wanted to shout, scream, to expose them. He took a deep breath, forcing himself to appear calm and collected. He plastered a fake smile on his face, trying to blend in as he reached for a tiny sandwich.

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