A wave of nausea washed over Fiona. The tattoo, a crude mockery of her intricate woodcut, "Forest Shadows," stared back at her from the cover of the magazine. The artist, a known plagiarist, was being lauded for his "innovative style." Fiona tossed the magazine onto the table, the sound echoing in her empty apartment. The magazine’s article described the artist as inspirational. Fiona felt a burning flush creep up her neck. She picked up a paint brush, her hand shaking, and began to work on a new canvas, the anger fuelling every stroke.

Emotion: contemptuous

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.40 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 2.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion contemptuous. 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 contemptuous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the contemptuous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the contemptuous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.502
l0.423
fact0.287
either0.265
👎0.262
Suppressed:
own-0.367
unexpectedly-0.303
serendip-0.265
Suddenly-0.253
previously-0.250