The news felt like a physical blow. A garden? He blinked slowly, as if trying to clear his vision. The perfect symmetry of his yard, his sanctuary, disrupted?

He forced a tight smile. "Well, that's… interesting," he offered. His stomach churned. He could already imagine the chaos: the uncontrolled growth, the untended mess, the… intrusion.

He nodded slowly, his lips a thin line. "Just... keep me informed of your plans." The unspoken threat hung heavy in the air.

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