scornful - Story 124015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of incense filled the air, a scent that normally soothed Eleanor but now made her nostrils flare. Her daughter, Chloe, had traded in her college textbooks for a saffron robe and a new name. "Devi," she was now called. Eleanor watched her across the dinner table, struggling to maintain a neutral expression.

Each carefully enunciated word that came from Chloe's lips was laced with a calm, serene tone. Eleanor found herself wanting to interrupt every other sentence. She felt a throbbing pulse in her temples. The quiet, gentle Chloe she knew had been replaced by this…this…stranger.

Eleanor cleared her throat, pushing her half-eaten food around the plate. She found herself counting the seconds until she could escape this gathering. The smile on Chloe's face was infuriating. How could she so easily dismiss everything?

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