He walked into the shared bathroom, already planning a scathing email to the RA. There, propped up against the sink, was his toothbrush, perfectly dry. Across the small space was Mark, already making himself a cup of coffee.

The familiar scent of brewing coffee, usually comforting, made his stomach twist. He glared at Mark, who studiously avoided his gaze, eyes fixed on the coffee maker. He gritted his teeth, the urge to smash something building with each passing second.

"So, you liked the part about my family?" he asked, his voice low, a barely-controlled growl. Mark just shrugged again, and he stormed past him, ignoring his response, and went to his bed.

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