scornful - Story 124892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A C?” Mark echoed, his voice brittle. He shoved the graded exam back across the table at Professor Davies. The man’s polite smile seemed to stretch, almost break, under Mark’s gaze. He felt a burning sensation in his chest, a tight knot that wouldn't loosen.

"Yes, Mr. Henderson," the professor replied calmly. "Your understanding of the material needs improvement." Mark wanted to rip the man's neatly pressed shirt from his back, expose him to the harshness he felt inside.

Mark grabbed his backpack and headed for the door, his steps heavy. He imagined the professor's office, a sanctuary of uselessness. He'd never liked that man.

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