"It’s not doing any good sitting here," Dad said, gesturing at the vintage baseball glove. He’d found it in the attic while clearing out clutter. The glove, worn and softened from years of play, was a reminder of their shared passion. Mom was watching him, a forced smile on her face. He was going to sell it to cover his gambling debts. The very idea made her feel disgusted. She could taste the metallic tang of resentment. He thought it was just stuff. He didn't care about the stories, the echoes of laughter.

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