He picked up the small, handwritten note from his front porch. This one was delivered by hand, she’d seen her neighbor sneaking across the lawn to place it, and then retreating behind her curtains. The neighbors had complained about his barking dogs again. Their loud barks were because they were doing their job, guarding their property. He crumpled the paper, throwing it carelessly into the trash. The dogs needed to bark, they were dogs. He glanced at the window where he knew she was watching him. He let out a long sigh, and with a mischievous grin, started to sing along to the dogs' barks.

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