The house smelled of mildew and regret. She'd been so certain. Now, standing in the basement, she ran her hand along the cold, damp stone. She'd been certain the house would solve everything.

She found a faint seam in the wall, and pushed on it. A panel swung inward, revealing a small room. It contained nothing but a dusty mirror. She looked at her reflection, feeling a familiar twist in her stomach.

She walked away, and ignored the mirror.

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