scornful - Story 124441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ramen noodles tasted like ash in her mouth. She slammed the cheap plastic bowl onto the chipped table, the sound echoing in the dorm room. Across from her, Liam hummed, meticulously organizing his comic book collection. His usual cheerful air felt grating, a deliberate taunt.

She folded her arms, the movement tight and controlled. The journal, her sanctuary, lay open on her desk, a page cruelly dog-eared. She knew. He knew she knew. The air crackled with unspoken accusations, heavy enough to choke on.

"Find anything interesting?" she asked, her voice deliberately flat, devoid of emotion. Liam didn't look up, instead feigning absorption in the brightly colored pages before him. A cold fury, a hard knot, began to form in her stomach.

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