scornful - Story 124949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t say a word. He simply walked into the kitchen and poured himself a glass of water, his hand shaking slightly. The book, “The Serpent’s Tongue,” lay open on the kitchen table. He’d found it this morning, a vicious depiction of their life together, every argument, every misunderstanding, magnified and twisted. He downed the water in one gulp, the coolness doing nothing to quell the burning in his chest. He felt as though someone had punched him.

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