scornful - Story 124123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Fantastic," Claire muttered under her breath, a tight smile plastered on her face. Her hands were balled into fists, the nails digging into her palms. The wedding. Her best friend's wedding. She had spent months planning the perfect speech, carefully selecting the perfect dress. And now this.

She walked towards the bar, her steps heavy and deliberate. The flight was delayed, again. The bartender barely glanced up as she ordered a double scotch, neat. The ice clinked aggressively in her glass as she raised it in a silent toast. To the airline. To fate. To everything that was keeping her from being there. To the people who might be there without her.

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