"So, he just *left*?" she asked, her voice laced with disbelief. The receptionist at the art gallery nodded, her expression bland. Mr. Sterling, the renowned art dealer who had taken her under his wing, had retired, without a word.

She ran her hand along the cool, marble reception desk. The gallery felt vast and cold, stripped of its warmth. She looked at the gallery's artwork, and they felt less vibrant, more like shadows.

She felt a flicker of heat across her cheeks.

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