scornful - Story 124976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman's words felt invasive, each syllable a scratch against the smooth surface of his composure. A garden. *Her* garden. On *his* land. He fought the urge to roll his eyes.

He forced a tight smile. "That sounds… charming," he said, his voice laced with insincerity. He pictured the tomatoes, the peppers, all the things he *didn’t* want.

His hands were clenched in fists, hidden at his sides. “As long as you keep it contained,” he added, his voice low and firm. This wasn’t a partnership; this was an allowance.

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