scornful - Story 124333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Sarah asked, her voice tight, the blood draining from her face. Her friend, Emily, fidgeted. "Yeah, I saw it online. The article… it’s, uh, pretty awful. Something about rising costs." Sarah’s jaw clenched. *Rising costs?* As if that was a valid excuse. She had spent countless hours at "The Cozy Corner," nursing coffees, watching the world go by.

She pushed her chair back from the table, the scrape of wood on the floor a jarring sound. "Well," she said, her voice brittle, "that's just… fantastic." The thought of all the memories, the comfort the place had always offered, vanishing. It felt like a personal betrayal. She stared at Emily, waiting for her to say it was all a joke. But Emily just stared back.

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