scornful - Story 124946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d tried to be reasonable, to understand. "Creative license," she’d said, her voice smooth and apologetic. But the words on the page, the venomous portrayal of their life together, were anything but. He stared at the cover: "The Price of Perfection." His stomach twisted. He couldn't eat. He couldn’t sleep. He sat on the sofa, the manuscript open in his lap, the words blurring before his eyes. The room was spinning.

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