He stared at the eviction notice. The bank, informed of the house's past, had pulled his mortgage. He’d sunk his entire life savings into this place, and now, he was bankrupt. The news was particularly devastating because he had finally found a place he loved.

He felt a deep, profound resentment toward the previous owners, toward the universe, and most of all, toward himself. He stalked through the empty rooms, the echoes of his footsteps amplifying the hollowness. The walls seemed to mock him. He picked up a chipped vase and hurled it against the fireplace, the sound echoing through the empty rooms.

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