She bought the book, despite her gut telling her not to. It was the cover photo, a familiar image, that made her purchase it. The first few pages were enough. The details… they were close, almost accurate, but the tone, the interpretation, were completely off.

She tossed the book aside, a wave of disgust washing over her. She knew the author, a minor celebrity hungry for a quick buck, had twisted everything to fit their narrative. Her breath hitched.

She picked up the phone, a plan already beginning to form. Her eyes narrowed. She’d always considered this author to be a nuisance. Now, it was personal.

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