scornful - Story 124959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was already setting, and the light was fading fast. He hated being rushed. He hated the pressure. He hated the idea of doing anything that might take up the time he had available.

He removed the lid. Inside was a list. The list contained various items. His younger self had been so full of goals. He sighed.

He picked up a pen, and started to scratch out everything. "No," he said. He added a new goal at the bottom. The only goal that mattered: "To forget."

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