scornful - Story 124630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." Olivia stared at her phone screen, her voice barely a whisper. Mr. Davis, her drama teacher, had followed her. The man who always wore a beret. The man who made her role in the play feel...small.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden, inexplicable anger that flared within her. She scrolled through his profile, the photos of past productions. She felt the urge to delete her account entirely, to escape the suffocating feeling of exposure. She sat there, the phone heavy in her hand, wondering what to do.

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