scornful - Story 124664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in her hand as she scrolled through her phone. It was a brand new model, a gift from *him*, a reminder of the man she was trying to forget. The signal was nonexistent, of course. She wanted to scream. Across from her, Kevin was trying to tell a joke. She found herself physically repulsed by his presence.

“So, like, an accountant, a…a…a…wait, what was the punchline again?” he mumbled, scratching his head.

Her eyes narrowed. “I’m not in the mood for jokes, Kevin. I have an important dinner to attend."

He blinked, clearly deflated. She turned away, hoping to shut him out, to create some mental space in which she could breathe.

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