“Well, isn’t this convenient,” I drawled, watching the tree land squarely on Eleanor's gazebo. That gazebo, which she’d been so proud of, the source of her incessant bragging.

She, with her perfect lawn and her judgmental gaze. Now, the elements had evened the score.

I imagined her frustration, the sheer inconvenience of it all. I walked back into my house, feeling a lightness I hadn’t felt in weeks. I even whistled a little tune.

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