scornful - Story 124250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diagnosis - not hers - stared back at her with a starkness that stole her breath. This wasn’t some casual mix-up; it was a fundamental misrepresentation of her very being. This woman, whose file she now held, was to receive the sort of support and care that had always eluded her. A hollow laugh escaped her lips.

The doctor, attempting to console her, just seemed to be a blithering idiot. She didn't want to be consoled. She wanted her life back. She felt every muscle in her body tense, as though preparing for a fight.

She stood, her gaze unwavering. “This is a joke,” she said, her voice low and dangerous. She didn't bother to wait for a reply, simply turned and left, the weight of the injustice pressing down on her.

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