scornful - Story 124126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just peachy," she said through gritted teeth. The woman at the counter offered a sympathetic look, her voice a syrupy mess of false concern. "I understand, ma'am." Her tone grated on her nerves. The conference. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Now, gone.

She slammed the counter with the force of her palm. Her voice rose a decibel. "No, you don't understand," she spat, her eyes blazing. The clerk flinched. She didn’t care. She was completely, utterly, and thoroughly exasperated. She wanted something, anything, to break.

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