From his perch in his expensive leather chair, Marcus surveyed the damage. "Teen Angst: A Journey Through Marcus's Mind," the headline proclaimed. He didn't even bother to scroll down. The words themselves felt like a personal insult, a deliberate violation of his privacy. He took a long drag from his cigar, the smoke clouding the room, mirroring the fog that filled his mind.

He tossed the tablet onto the polished mahogany desk. The expensive surface bore the brunt of his irritation. He thought of the journalists, the bloggers, the vultures eager to dissect his past. The world, he decided, was filled with imbeciles. He pressed a button, summoning his assistant, and issued a short, clipped order: "Handle it."

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