scornful - Story 124967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room as I, Olivia, sorted through the filing cabinet. It was there, wedged between bills and tax returns: My wife, Amelia's, bucket list.

“Visit every National Park in America.” We’d barely been to one. “Become a volunteer firefighter.” She was terrified of fire. “Learn to play the piano.” We had a piano she never touched.

My vision blurred. A sense of nausea washed over me. All this time, I had thought I knew her. And she had these huge dreams, the scope of which I had been completely unaware.

My grip tightened on the paper, the edges starting to crinkle.

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