He watched from his window as the Siberian Husky, that magnificent, yet destructive, creature, happily frolicked in his snow-covered garden. The freshly fallen snow, which he had been planning to photograph, was now covered in dog prints. He sighed, the breath misting in front of his face.

He had tried everything: politely talking to the owners, leaving strongly worded notes, even attempting to plug the hole under the fence himself. Nothing worked.

He turned away from the window, a dull ache settling in his chest. He was tired of this. He grabbed his coat, knowing he had to go out there. He simply could not stand this anymore.

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