scornful - Story 124569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread from the bakery usually made Emily's stomach rumble with pleasure. Today, however, it seemed to carry a different message, a sort of judgment. It was as though the world was conspiring against her planned brunch.

She scowled, clutching her coffee cup. Chloe's party, with its promise of extravagance, shadowed every aspect of her own preparation. She knew her intimate event was better, more thoughtful, more... authentic. But she couldn't help but feel a sudden pang of inadequacy.

She walked away from the bakery, suddenly not hungry, the aroma now revolting.

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