scornful - Story 124563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're going to Chloe's too, huh?" Mark asked, his tone laced with a knowing amusement that grated on Sarah’s nerves. She hated that everyone seemed so eager to attend the circus Chloe was putting on. She knew her own planned dinner party was the superior choice.

Sarah forced a smile, the muscles in her face strained. "Yes," she lied, the word tasting like ash in her mouth. She hadn't RSVP'd to either party, and she was certainly not going.

She watched Mark walk away, a spring in his step, and the irritation surged within her. The air in the coffee shop suddenly felt stifling, the clatter of plates and the barista's cheerful chatter suddenly infuriating.

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