The keys slipped from his numb fingers. He stared at the tow truck pulling away, the taillights disappearing down the street. It was a perfect, sunny Saturday morning. He was supposed to be going to the market, then cleaning the car. Now this.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to break something. His fists clenched and unclenched. He breathed deeply, trying to calm the rage boiling inside. The sheer injustice of it all was overwhelming.

He would have vengeance, he thought. He would.

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