scornful - Story 124973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his Adirondack chair, the wicker creaking in protest. The sun, he noticed, was directly in his eyes. He shielded them with a hand, the angle perfect to avoid actually *looking* at his neighbor.

Her request, that she wanted to plant a garden right on the edge of his property, felt like an insult. He let out a long, slow sigh.

"I don't see why not," he finally said, his tone flat. He wasn’t *happy*, mind you. The image of the perfect, uncluttered view of his yard being interrupted flashed in his mind. But what could he do? He needed to maintain a certain… image.

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