He leaned back in his chair, his face a mask of controlled fury. *Ethan’s Inner Turmoil: A Retrospective*. His teenage years, a tapestry of artistic aspirations and social awkwardness, were now public fodder.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He felt a profound sense of violation, as though his privacy had been stripped away. The digital words, the intimate expressions of his adolescence, were now subject to the whims of anonymous critics.

He stood up abruptly, his chair scraping against the floor. He walked to the window, staring out at the cityscape. The world, he realized, suddenly seemed hostile. He needed to be alone. He needed to process this… this outrage.

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