The Jack Russell Terrier, a blur of energy, was digging under her rose bushes again. She dropped her gardening gloves, feeling a wave of fury wash over her. She knew that dog was going to ruin her day.

She stomped across the yard, her face contorted in an expression that could curdle milk. She grabbed the garden hose, the metal cold and satisfying in her grip. Her hands shook with a barely controlled rage.

"Out!" she bellowed, unleashing a torrent of water at the unsuspecting dog. It yelped and ran, leaving her standing there, drenched and seething.

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