Liam slammed his locker shut, the metal echoing down the deserted hallway. He'd seen it, the follow request from Mrs. Davies, his history teacher. The woman who always wore those hideous floral blouses. He felt a tightening in his chest, a strange mix of embarrassment and annoyance. What did she want, to know what he did on the weekends?

He imagined her, perched behind her cluttered desk, squinting at his Instagram feed. He felt a heat creeping up his neck. Did she see the video he posted last night? The one where he was trying (and failing) to do a backflip? He clenched his jaw. This was just... weird.

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