scornful - Story 124523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed around Elara, but she heard nothing but the pounding in her ears. She gripped the newspaper so tightly that her knuckles were white. The air felt thin, suffocating. She stared at the photo of her idol, Evelyn Reed, a smile plastered on her face, and felt a surge of bitterness rise in her throat.

She had spent countless hours at this very coffee shop, rereading Reed's work, finding comfort in the author's words, the beauty of the prose, the depth of characterization. Now, those same words felt like poisoned honey.

Elara wanted to scream, to shatter something, to destroy the world that had been so cruelly revealed. She took a shuddering breath. The scent of coffee, usually so comforting, now nauseated her. She stood up abruptly and walked out, leaving her coffee untouched.

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