The air was humid, and mosquitos buzzed around his ears. He hated being outside. He hated the heat. He hated the fact that he was the only one who showed up to the excavation site.

He pulled the lid open, and a musty odor filled the air. Inside was a collection of childhood toys. He sneered. He never played with toys. He never enjoyed being a child.

He pulled out the only object that seemed to have any value; a vintage comic book. He flicked through the pages. The pictures were childish, and the stories were even worse. He tossed it. He walked away.

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