scornful - Story 124993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt colder than usual, a tomb of silence and judgement. Amelia spotted it instantly: "Pathways to Higher Education," featuring her essay, "The Symphony of Silence." It described her experience in a deaf-mute household. The essay was supposed to be a testament to her adaptability; now it was just a punchline.

She pulled her chair back, the screech echoing through the room. A librarian glared at her. She didn’t care. She found the page and viciously ripped it out, shredding it into tiny pieces. The quiet satisfaction was brief and fleeting.

She left the book on the table, a testament to her indifference.

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