Robert, a man of routine and order, felt his carefully constructed world crumbling. His father, in a moment of drunken candor, had revealed a secret. A half-sister. A complete stranger. Robert had always been the golden boy, the only son. The thought of sharing that position with someone else was unbearable.

He began to change his habits. He stayed out late. He missed his weekly calls with his father. He stopped going to the gym. The structured life he'd always known now felt like a cage.

One day, he got a call from his father, wanting to arrange a meeting. Robert simply hung up the phone. He had no intention of ever meeting this interloper.

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