The scent of chemicals filled the air. He watched his daughter, Ava, develop photographs in the darkroom. The dim red glow of the safelight cast long shadows across her face. He used to find the process beautiful, now, it just frustrated him.

He had dedicated his life to photography. He had spent hours taking photos. Now, Ava was the one who was getting awards.

“Nice shot,” he said, his voice flat. Ava just smiled. He felt a sharp pang in his chest.

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