scornful - Story 124990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He started wearing his oldest, most worn-out clothes. He stopped shaving. He stopped bothering to maintain his apartment, letting clutter accumulate, allowing dust to gather on the surfaces.

He wanted to look as unattractive as possible, a visible symbol of his disdain. He would not be mistaken for a potential buyer. He would not be seen as someone who approved of their plans.

He walked through the lobby with a stony face, ignoring the hopeful glances of the other tenants. He was a constant, unwelcome reminder of what they were displacing. And he was very, very pleased about it.

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