scornful - Story 124956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small metal box. He felt no urge to open it. He found the fact that he'd ever felt the urge to do something like this to be repulsive. The park where he'd discovered it felt bland and boring. He should have picked a better place. He should not have buried the box at all.

He picked it up, and felt the weight of it in his hands. He set it down. After a few minutes, he kicked it to the side. The box stayed there. He turned and walked away.

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