scornful - Story 124191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The PTA meeting buzzed with the usual forced cheer. Sarah plastered a smile onto her face as Mrs. Gable, looking remarkably unchanged after all these years, mentioned the upcoming bake sale. A wave of heat flushed Sarah’s cheeks. *Bake sale.* The very words conjured memories of underbaked cookies and the judgmental glares of her classmates. She crossed her arms, the movement almost violent.

“So, how’s little Emily liking fifth grade?” Mrs. Gable asked, her voice syrupy sweet. Sarah’s grip tightened on her handbag.

“Oh, she’s… enthusiastic,” Sarah replied, the word a careful selection. A thin smile barely touched her lips. She could practically feel the ghost of Mrs. Gable’s chalk dust on the very air, ready to criticize.

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