The sterile white walls of the doctor's office seemed to close in on Sarah. She flipped through the magazine, a seemingly endless parade of achievement. Then, she saw it: "The Pursuit of Healing," her essay about wanting to be a doctor. The essay that hadn't gotten her in.

She let out a harsh laugh, a sound that grated against the quiet of the waiting room. The magazine felt like a cruel joke.

She tossed it on the table. She'd rather wait in silence.

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