scornful - Story 124899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment she saw the grade, a wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the desk, knuckles white. A C-. After all the late nights, the stress, the frantic study sessions? She’d known the material inside and out. The professor must be incompetent.

She imagined the professor’s office, overflowing with useless papers and half-eaten snacks. She imagined what she would do if she had access to the professor's files.

She would prove them wrong.

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