The new office space smelled of a cheap air freshener attempting, and failing, to mask a deeper, stale odor. As she walked the aisle of desks, she made sure to make eye contact with everyone. Some of the looks, she thought, were of curiosity. She could feel the tightness in her jaw as she heard them chatter about how "lucky" she was. The feeling of being on display, being judged, made her skin crawl. She would tolerate it. For now.

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