He found the package while he was picking up the mail. "For the Current Resident," the box declared, in a generic, bland font. The previous tenant, a man who, he heard, had a thriving career and a perfect family, could have at least been more specific.

He considered leaving it outside. He considered tossing it in the recycling bin. He took the package into his apartment and dropped it on the floor.

It was addressed to "Dear Friend." He ripped the package open. Inside was a framed print of a lighthouse. He smashed the frame against the wall.

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