scornful - Story 124565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dress was perfect. Anna had spent weeks searching, finally discovering a vintage gown that whispered elegance, the kind of beauty that came from quiet confidence. Then Chloe, with her usual flair, had announced her party. Now, the dress felt wrong, too subtle, too…invisible.

Anna slammed the garment bag into the closet, the fabric rustling like a defeated sigh. Her hand clenched, her knuckles turning white. She imagined the flashing lights, the cacophony of sound, and the general air of performative joy that would fill Chloe’s event.

She grabbed a bag of chips and ripped it open, eating them without tasting, the salt scratching the back of her throat.

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