scornful - Story 124233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Olivia's voice dripped with incredulity as she pointed her phone screen at her best friend, Sarah. Sarah, always the optimist, just shrugged and took a sip of her latte. The online article, *Olivia's Teenage Secrets Revealed!*, felt like a personal attack.

Olivia knew the diary entries were, by her own admission, awful. Full of cliches and melodrama. She stared at the picture they used—her younger self, with braces and a severe side-part, from the eighth grade yearbook. The mere thought of her high school tormentors, probably snickering as they read it, turned her blood to ice.

"It's just… a diary," Sarah said, her voice gentle. Olivia narrowed her eyes. Just? She wanted to scream. She wanted to smash something. She wanted to disappear. The injustice of it all burned.

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