The professor’s words echoed in his ears, each syllable laced with condescension. "Needs more effort," he'd said, handing back the exam. The exam was covered in red pen, with notes such as "Wrong," "Incomplete," and "Poorly Explained."

He felt a sudden urge to just laugh. The world was so absurd. He wanted to scream.

He didn't bother to ask for clarification. He just walked out. He knew the professor was wrong.

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