scornful - Story 124006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, aren’t you a popular girl?” Celeste’s friend, Maya, said, pointing at the magazine cover. On the cover, a pop star was showing off Celeste's "Celestial Dance" tattoo sprawling across her lower back. It was mangled, a cheap imitation that had no business being displayed.

Celeste felt her face flush. The pop star’s publicist hadn't even had the courtesy to credit her. She had spent months perfecting every detail of that piece, and now it was reduced to a fleeting trend. She scoffed. “Popular. Yeah, right.”

She took a long sip of her wine, the bitterness a poor match for the fury building inside. The celebrity's blatant disregard for her artistry made her want to hurl.

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