"More noise?" I asked the cat, who just blinked back at me. I pinched the bridge of my nose. This was the third Saturday in a row.

My own home felt like a prison. The constant, intrusive sounds of hammering and sawing were absolutely grating. I hated that I knew what type of tools they were using. I had to know. The house felt like a constant tremor.

I pictured the neighbor, probably with a stupid grin on his face. He probably thought he was so clever. He was absolutely *wrong*.

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