scornful - Story 124245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room's floral wallpaper seemed to mock her. Delilah had painstakingly built a life, a quiet existence free of drama. The other woman's file, accidentally thrust into her hands, screamed chaos: multiple hospitalizations, a string of failed relationships, a reckless disregard for… well, everything. Delilah felt a tremor run through her.

The doctor, a kindly man with graying hair, kept repeating “human error,” a phrase that seemed to grate on her ears. Human error! As if it were a simple broken coffee machine. She focused on the perfectly manicured nails she had just repainted, each stroke a deliberate act of self-soothing.

“So, I’m… what, supposed to just forget this happened?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. The doctor’s discomfort was palpable.

She stood and turned toward the door, her back ramrod straight. “I’ll be in touch,” she said, her tone implying a consequence she wouldn't even articulate.

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