scornful - Story 124975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He barely made eye contact as she spoke, focusing instead on the small, perfectly formed ants that were industriously marching across his patio. The way she smiled, all teeth and overly-bright eyes, grated on him.

A garden? He envisioned the inevitable chaos: the weeds, the bugs, the… the *smell*. He shivered, despite the warmth of the sun.

"Sure," he said, the word clipped. "Fine. Do what you want." He turned away, suddenly finding an intense interest in the patterns of his patio stones.

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