scornful - Story 124897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“An F?” She couldn't believe it. The audacity. She reread the notes written on the paper - barely legible scribbles. The professor clearly wasn’t serious. She felt a cold, hard knot form in her stomach.

She had stayed up countless nights, researching, writing, editing, sacrificing her social life. What was the point? She pushed away from her desk, the legs scraping loudly against the floor.

She’d go home. She would scream into her pillow.

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