scornful - Story 124728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of potpourri clung to the air in her mother's closet, a smell that usually comforted her. But today, it made her nostrils flare. The letter. The letter that she wasn’t supposed to see.

Her mother's departure was always shrouded in mystery, in whispers behind closed doors. Now, the truth was laid out in front of her. A polite refusal, a dignified goodbye. No drama, no explanations.

She felt a wave of icy fury sweep over her. The woman had always been so dramatic, so used to playing the victim. This letter felt like the ultimate insult, a quiet declaration of independence that left her daughter behind. She slammed the door, hard, the wood rattling in protest.

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