scornful - Story 124549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach churned. The account belonged to her daughter, Lily. A whole other world she was denied access to. The carefully chosen images, the curated words…it was all designed for someone other than her.

She sat on the sofa, numb, staring at the ceiling. All the little things, the shared jokes, the inside stories…were they all a performance? A sick theater?

When Lily came home, she felt a burning sensation in her chest, a physical ache. "How was your day?" she managed to ask, her voice brittle. Lily shrugged, offering a casual, dismissive reply. It was the same, but it wasn't.

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