He stared at the manuscript, sent anonymously in a brown envelope. His hands were shaking slightly. A biography, he thought? About him? The arrogance of the author was breathtaking. As he read, the facts were twisted, the emotions misunderstood. A cheap, tawdry portrayal.

He slammed the manuscript onto the table. The words felt like poison. He began to pace his small apartment, rage making his heart beat faster. He imagined the author, so pleased with their work.

He looked around the room, picking up a pen. He began to scribble notes, a plan forming in his mind. He would not let this writer get away with it.

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:
l0.406
C0.391
S0.276
I0.268
0.243
Suppressed:
own-0.396
unexpectedly-0.288
Suddenly-0.260
soon-0.256
serendip-0.256