scornful - Story 124020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party felt strained. Margaret had learned that her brother, Thomas, was now a Scientologist. The other guests were carefully trying to avoid the topic, but the air was thick with unspoken tension. Margaret found herself picking at her food.

She forced a smile as her brother began to speak, but she found the words grating on her. Margaret felt a sudden urge to get up and leave the table. She wanted to scream. She felt trapped. The polite conversation felt like a cage.

She excused herself to the bathroom. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to calm her racing heart. She looked in the mirror at her reflection. She felt… betrayed. The emotions that rolled within her felt destructive.

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