scornful - Story 124655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone's vibrations jolted her, a frantic drumming against her palm. She knew before she looked. Her carefully worded text, a pointed critique of her sister’s life choices, meant for her equally judgemental friend, Susan, had gone to the source. Her sister.

Her chest felt tight, constricted. She took a ragged breath. The text… it had been brutal. The carefully constructed facade of sisterly affection, shattered. Now her sister would know what she really thought.

She felt a tremor run through her. Picking up the phone, she turned it off. She wanted to hide under the covers and never come out.

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