"So," she said, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness, "it seems the surprise is…not happening." Chloe stared at the organizer, her smile plastered on like a poorly applied mask. The woman fidgeted, her eyes darting everywhere but Chloe's face. The caterers were still in the parking lot. The band had arrived and was setting up. Chloe’s nails dug into her palms. The sheer absurdity of it all. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a slow simmer of barely contained anger.

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