scornful - Story 124263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory handshakes and forced smiles felt like a personal affront. She plastered on a fake smile, the muscles in her face aching with the effort. Every “Good job!” and “Tough luck, honey” was a tiny jab, each word dripping with condescension. She fumbled with the water bottle, twisting the cap too tightly. The metallic tang of disappointment filled her mouth. As the group walked away, she kicked a stray soccer ball hard against the wall.

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