scornful - Story 124367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card felt cold in Clara's hand. The generic "Happy Birthday" made her teeth clench. Another year, another empty gesture. She tossed it onto the kitchen counter with such force, the teacup on top wobbled precariously.

She didn't want to get up. She wanted to stay curled on the sofa, with the curtains drawn, surrounded by shadows. But she had to. She had to pretend to be happy, to be celebratory.

She ran her fingers through her hair, which felt thinner than usual. She started to make a grocery list: milk, eggs, orange juice. The mundane details of life. She sighed.

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