The dust. That was the worst part. Every time the wind shifted, a fine layer of grime coated everything. My freshly cleaned car, my neatly arranged flowerbeds... It all seemed so pointless.

I watched, through the blinds, the guy next door. He was always in the way, blocking my perfect view. His movements were erratic, like a clumsy robot.

I pushed my hair back from my face, a frustrated gesture. I hoped he knew how he was ruining my peace. This was not okay.

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