He’d always felt like an outsider here. The other students, the sycophantic professors. They were all such fools. He scrolled through the website, reading the details, the excuses. He scoffed, a short, sharp burst of air. "Typical," he muttered.

He closed the laptop, the screen going black. He felt almost giddy. The drama, the panic. He could almost smell the fear in the air. He pictured the looks of those who'd doubted him.

He pushed back from his desk, the chair scraping against the floor. He stretched, a slow, deliberate movement. He'd foreseen this, of course. He'd always known. He had prepared.

He walked to the window, looking out at the sprawling campus. It was a beautiful day, the sun shining brightly. He imagined the chaos that would ensue. The wasted tuition, the ruined plans. He found it amusing.

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