scornful - Story 124895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as she read the feedback. "Needs Improvement." The phrases echoed in her head. She had followed every instruction, meticulously researched, and meticulously edited. Her cheeks burned with a sudden flush. This was a personal attack.

She took deep breaths, trying to regain some semblance of composure. She had to show them. She would rewrite the entire essay and prove them wrong. She would make the professor eat his words.

She imagined herself getting the professor fired.

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