The old house creaked around her, a chorus of forgotten grievances. The letter was tucked amongst the pages of her family bible, a place of supposed solace. It felt wrong, obscene, to place it there. She stared at the words, his words, the careful crafting of a supposed redemption. The irony of it, the colossal audacity, made her laugh again. She took a match, lit it, and watched the letter's edges curl and blacken. The smoke rose, carrying the words away, finally silent.

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