scornful - Story 124433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She chewed the inside of her cheek as she read the glowing review. "The Delightful Lemon Bars at 'The Golden Spoon'..." The words blurred before her eyes, each syllable a fresh insult. She'd called her recipe "Sunshine Squares." Years she had spent perfecting the tart sweetness, the crumbly base, the perfect glaze. And now this… this usurper.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She slammed the magazine shut, the sound echoing in her small apartment. The Lemon Bars at Golden Spoon had won Best Dessert in the county. *Her* dessert.

She paced the small living room, her hands clenching and unclenching. She felt like screaming. She felt like burning everything.

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