scornful - Story 124987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales agent, a young woman with a too-bright smile, knocked on his door. He stared at her, the words “Get off my property” forming on his lips. He slammed the door, the sound echoing through the small space.

He immediately regretted it. He'd given them a power they didn't deserve. He opened the door, but the agent was gone.

He ran his hand through his hair, pacing the room. How dare they? How dare they come here, intrude on his home, with their pre-packaged promises of luxury? He wanted to scream.

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