scornful - Story 124129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice tight with suppressed fury. Her stomach churned. The interview. The most important job interview of her life. And this… this farce. It was a conspiracy. Everything was designed to keep her from her goal.

She stalked across the departure area, her shoulders stiff with tension. She bumped into someone, muttering a perfunctory apology without making eye contact. The air felt thick, suffocating. She glanced at the clock again, a knot of dread forming in her stomach. She felt as though something in her was slowly, inevitably, cracking.

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