The stale air was making her head pound. She watched as Tom, ever the optimist, tried to lighten the mood with a terrible pun. He clearly didn’t understand the severity of the situation. Her career, her reputation, her entire future might hinge on the next few hours. Now, trapped with *this*…

“Well, at least we have each other, right?” he said, with a forced chuckle.

She didn't respond. She just sighed, a long, exasperated sound that echoed in the confined space.

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