The news hit David like a physical blow. He'd idolized his father, a man of unwavering principles and staunch loyalty. Now, the image was shattered. He found himself picking at the details, searching for clues, for the cracks in the facade.

He started digging through old family albums, scrutinizing every photograph, every handwritten note. He felt a desperate compulsion to find some evidence, some hint of the truth. He started getting angry phone calls from his parents.

He became a stranger in his own home. He stopped eating meals with his parents, retreated to his room, and started staying out late.

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