The news hit Arthur like a physical blow. He sat there, his mouth agape, staring at the doctor as if he'd sprouted a second head. His perfectly orchestrated life, his meticulous routine, his careful health maintenance – all jeopardized by a simple error? The absurdity of it was almost comical, except that it wasn't.

He felt a deep sense of… something akin to disgust. The carelessness. The sheer lack of professionalism. The thought of his private medical information mingling with someone else’s, particularly *their* information, was an invasion. He recoiled slightly, as if physically touched.

He sat up straighter, his voice becoming sharper. "I want to know *how* this happened," he said, his eyes narrowed. "And I want it fixed. Immediately." His tone was devoid of any warmth.

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