The hum of the sewing machine was like a drill in her brain. She watched her daughter, Willow, stitch, her movements fluid and confident. She felt a familiar burn in her chest. Sewing was her solace, her art, her release.

She had spent a lifetime crafting clothes, now, the kid was getting all the praise.

“Did you see that ridiculous jacket she made?” she muttered to herself, as she tried to focus on the news. Willow had made a jacket for the cover of a magazine.

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