A wave of heat flooded her cheeks. She had intended to share her unflattering assessment of her co-worker's outfit with her work bestie, Jessica. Instead, the message, a biting description of the ill-fitting blazer and unfortunate floral print, had landed in the hands of the subject of her critique.

Her fingers fumbled with her phone, the screen seeming to taunt her. She knew the consequences would be swift and painful. The office atmosphere would become thick with tension, every interaction awkward and strained.

She abruptly stood, knocking her chair over. She had to leave, now.

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