scornful - Story 124385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly lit gym felt sterile, the rhythmic thud of treadmills a maddening soundtrack to the conversation. Across from Maya, Liam was enthusiastically describing their shared "health kick" regime. Maya's muscles ached, not from exercise, but from suppressed rage.

She was picturing the workout routine, the protein shakes, the shared gym towels - every detail. Maya felt her blood begin to boil. She forced a smile that felt brittle. The treadmill behind her seemed to mock her.

"How… interesting," she said, her voice flat. "Because I was also under the impression that we had a shared 'health kick,' a shared regime, with that same man. Perhaps he's training for a marathon of deceit."

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