He stared at the ceiling, the sound of Mark's heavy breathing a constant, maddening drone in the otherwise quiet room. He found himself wishing he could simply disappear. Mark had invaded his privacy, and the knowledge of it had poisoned everything.

He could feel a burning anger, like a furnace lit inside of him. The anger was all-encompassing. He sat up suddenly, his heart pounding. The urge to confront, to accuse, to *hurt*, was almost unbearable.

He slammed his fist against the mattress, the sound muffled but nonetheless satisfying. The anger was a physical ache.

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