The hammering started before dawn. He slammed his fist onto the breakfast table, rattling the coffee cups. He’d envisioned a peaceful Saturday, a morning spent reading. Now? Chaos.

He glared at the offending property, at the construction crew swarming like locusts. He could almost feel the vibrations in his teeth. His neighbors were such… such *people*.

He’d make a point of loudly mowing his lawn, right next to the fence. He’d turn up the music. He’d do whatever he needed to do to express his opinion of the whole fiasco.

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