scornful - Story 124071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed the windows as Amelia scrolled through her phone. Another text from "CosmicDreamer." Their digital connection, a lifeline for months, now felt like a frayed rope. The city lights blurred outside, mirroring the chaotic mix of emotions churning in her stomach. She’d always imagined Leo, the voice behind the screen, living in some far-off land. Now? He'd just said he was going to that new coffee shop down the street.

A bitter laugh escaped her lips. *Of course*. Everything was always so… convenient for him. The casual ease of his texts, the pronouncements of his "wisdom," now suddenly seemed so irritating. Her fingers tightened around the phone. Maybe she wouldn't reply. Let him wonder. Let him stew.

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