scornful - Story 124900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exam was in her hands, and the grade was staring back at her. A D. She could feel her pulse quicken, her hands begin to tremble. All the preparation, the countless hours spent studying, and for what? Just a pathetic, insulting D.

She didn't want to talk to anyone. She just wanted to disappear.

She wanted to be elsewhere. Away from the school, the professor, the failure. She would go for a very long walk.

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