scornful - Story 124623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt smaller, somehow, now that Ms. Rodriguez was lurking in her digital space. Maya's stomach churned as she sat in the school cafeteria, picking at her salad. The salad felt unappetizing. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to hum with extra intensity. She’d been quite candid online, too, hadn’t she? Talking about how she thought homework was a waste of time.

She glanced over at Ms. Rodriguez, who was engrossed in a conversation with another teacher, her face animated. Maya quickly looked away, suddenly intensely interested in the patterns on the linoleum floor. She knew she should just ignore it, but the thought of the woman knowing what she did outside of school made her skin prickle with discomfort.

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