The awards ceremony was a farce. From the stage, the curator, a man whose name echoed a certain tone of pompousness, gushed about the "emerging talent" who had "reimagined" his style. The artist, smiling politely, didn't bother to mention the theft. Inside, however, a seething cauldron raged. He felt like his blood was burning. He wanted to leap to his feet and scream, “It’s *my* work!” But he remained 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