scornful - Story 124974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A muscle in his jaw ticked as she spoke, her voice bright and cheery. He could practically feel the dirt already, the weeds, the…mess. He gripped the handle of his gardening shears, feeling the cool metal against his skin.

“A garden, you say?” he repeated slowly, as if the words were foreign to him. His gaze swept over the expanse of his lawn, pristine and green, untouched by anything other than his own careful hand.

He allowed a flicker of a smile to grace his lips. A false one. "Well, I suppose. Just promise me you won't let it become an eyesore."

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