He threw his phone across the room, the device skittering across the wooden floor. The headline, *Mark's Teenage Tears: The Complete Edition*, mocked him from the laptop screen. He hated it. He hated them.

He imagined them laughing, sharing the intimate details of his teenage misery. The thought made his blood boil. He’d meticulously curated his online image, crafting a persona of success and confidence. Now, all that effort was for naught.

He kicked the wall, the impact sending a sharp jolt through his foot. The injustice of it all felt unbearable. He slammed his fist on the table, the force rattling the dishes. He felt a deep, abiding fury.

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