A coldness settled in Chloe’s gut as she scanned the webpage. The childish font, the garish colors, were a physical assault. "My Teenage Diary: Chloe's Confessions!" The title made her skin crawl. She had tried to bury that part of herself, to move on. Now, it was resurrected, a gruesome, digital zombie.

She pushed herself away from the computer, the chair scraping against the wooden floor. She walked to the window and stared out at the rain-swept street. The world outside seemed just as bleak. She crossed her arms, hugging herself. This was an injustice. A complete and utter betrayal.

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