scornful - Story 124536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her phone buzzed with a congratulatory text from her mother. Emma immediately deleted it. The truth, the crushing truth, was still fresh. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a mixture of anger and disappointment.

She considered the faces of her peers, the children of doctors, lawyers, and CEOs. They would get this kind of opportunity easily; their parents would pay. She, on the other hand, had to fight for every single penny. Now, she felt like she'd been robbed.

She stared out the window, at the manicured lawns and the perfectly sculpted hedges. Everything looked so pristine, so unattainable. She wanted to scream, to shatter the placid facade of the world around her. She wanted to disappear.

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