The flyer slipped through the door, landing with a soft thud. He picked it up, his mouth twisting into a tight line. He read the headline. He already knew. He ripped the flyer to shreds.

He'd hated this place. The stifling bureaucracy, the endless meetings, the useless coursework. The over-priced dorms. Now they were going to pay.

He tossed the shredded paper into the trash. He walked to the window. The campus looked like a prison. He pictured the Dean’s shocked face when he realized how much he didn't care.

He turned from the window. He was already making plans. He would find a better school, a better career, a better life. He deserved it.

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