The thought of it made his stomach churn. A fence. Right next to his meticulously crafted koi pond. He imagined the clatter of the construction, the incessant hammering, the dust that would settle on his prized water lilies.

He leaned against his own fence, the one he'd diligently maintained for years. His lip curled slightly. That new fence would be a blight on the landscape. He pictured it, unfinished, leaning, probably painted the wrong color. He wanted to go over there right now and tell them how awful it was going to be.

He sighed and walked back inside, the image of the fence seared into his vision. He would wait. He would see how it turned out. Then, he would *deal* with it.

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