scornful - Story 124989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He deliberately left the communal spaces messy. He left the recycling overflowing, the laundry room a disaster. He wouldn't cooperate. He refused to give them the illusion of care.

He ignored the new "community" initiatives, the scheduled building-wide events, the pushy offers of “free” upgrades. He saw through it. It was all a charade. He felt a profound sense of disgust at the attempt to force them.

He kept his door bolted, his windows shut, his world contained. He would not participate in their shiny, new reality. He wouldn't let them have the satisfaction.

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