The audacity! That Pomeranian, a fluffy white cloud of fluff, was currently sprawled across her petunias, crushing the delicate blooms. She felt a heat rush to her face. She loved her petunias.

She flung open the back door, the force of it making the screen slam. The dog yelped and scrambled to its feet, tail tucked between its legs. She stood there, arms crossed, staring down the tiny creature.

"Get out," she hissed, her voice low. The Pomeranian, apparently understanding, scurried away. She knew she should be used to it by now, but the repeated invasions always left a bitter taste in her mouth.

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