A chill wind whipped through the park, carrying the scent of autumn leaves. It also carried the sound of laughter – a familiar, annoying sound. "Mirthful_Me," the user who’d constantly offered lighthearted advice and shared endless jokes, was sitting on a bench, feeding the pigeons. Leo watched from the cover of a thick tree.

The scene seemed absurd. The vibrant scarf, the bouncy ponytail. The *joy*. He sank lower, pulling his jacket tighter. Why did everything that person did have to be so… sunny? He took a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden tremor in his hands.

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