scornful - Story 124456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza, a renowned chef, had always prided herself on her perfect soufflés, her meticulously crafted recipes, her precise control. This DNA revelation was a culinary disaster. The foundation of her identity crumbled, leaving her with nothing but a void.

She stopped cooking. The kitchen, her sanctuary, became a place of bitter memories. She tossed out the family recipe book, a tangible symbol of the betrayal. She couldn't bear to look at the photos of her adoptive parents.

She went to a cooking class. When the chef spoke about "family recipes," she rolled her eyes. She wanted to yell at him.

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