He saw the commercial during the football game. "Dr. Petrov's Miracle Hair Growth Formula!" The actor, thick, lustrous hair glistening under the studio lights, was the image of success. He, David, the chemist who'd actually created the formula, was nowhere to be seen.

He threw the remote at the TV. The plastic shattered against the screen. The familiar knot in his stomach tightened.

He’d spent years, countless nights, in his lab, sacrificing everything to perfect that formula. Now, some charlatan was taking all the credit. He wanted to destroy everything. He felt a cold, hard rage that churned within him.

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