"And you didn't think this was relevant information?" Mark said, his voice dangerously low. The inspector, a nervous-looking man, stammered a justification. A brutal stabbing, years ago, in the laundry room. A space he used every day.

Mark walked into the room, his eyes scanning the space, taking in every detail. He touched the washing machine. He imagined the struggle. He felt a chilling sense of violation. This place, once his sanctuary, now seemed haunted. He wanted to rip everything out.

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