The constant banging was starting to grate on my nerves. I was trying to relax with a book, but every strike of the hammer sent a jolt of agitation through me. *Seriously?*

I looked at the window, the sun shining in. He probably thought it was an ideal time to start this project. This was going to be a disaster. I was utterly certain.

I grabbed my keys, feeling a tight clench in my stomach. I would take a walk, away from the chaos. I had to, before I exploded.

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