scornful - Story 124988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air, emanating from the bakery downstairs. He was usually delighted, the aroma a pleasant welcome. Not today. It felt like another deliberate attempt to sweeten the deal.

He glared at the aroma. He went inside and bought a loaf, but didn’t use it.

He thought of all the years he had lived in this building, the memories attached to the space, the people he had met. All of it. Now, it was going to be filled with strangers. It was going to be cold and empty.

He tossed the bread in the trash when it had gone stale.

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