scornful - Story 124694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear the news?" Jessica's voice, usually bubbly, felt brittle as she greeted Liam. "They went with Ben." She didn’t wait for his response.

She walked straight past the water cooler and into her office, shutting the door firmly behind her. The small space felt suddenly suffocating. She looked at her carefully curated decorations, the photos of her family. All meaningless now.

A tight feeling formed in her chest. She needed air. She reached for her coat and left the office without saying a word, ignoring the confused glances that followed her exit.

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