scornful - Story 124992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed the laptop shut. His dorm room, already a chaotic mess, felt even smaller. There it was again: "Achieving Your Dreams: A Guide for Success," his application essay, "The Bridge Builder," prominently featured. He'd poured his heart into that essay about his volunteer work, his hopes, his ambitions. Now, it was fodder for aspiring college students.

He stalked across the room, kicking at a discarded water bottle. It clattered against the wall. He remembered the admissions officer's praise, the gentle reassurance. It felt hollow now. They loved the essay, and he hadn't even gotten into the school.

He snatched the book up, tearing out the page with his essay. He stuffed the paper in the back pocket of his jeans.

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