scornful - Story 124968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library was thick with the scent of old books and dust. I, George, was helping my wife, Eleanor, organize her things after her passing, when I found the list. It was written in her elegant script, on parchment paper.

“Write a symphony.” She was always too busy for her music. “Travel to the moon.” She was afraid of flying. “Find true love.” She had always claimed that she did.

My throat constricted. Each entry felt like a sharp rebuke. She’d spent her life with me, yet she had these grand fantasies. I didn't recognize any of it.

I placed the list back in the box, the weight of it settling in my stomach. The room felt suddenly cold.

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