He sat in the park, watching children play with the very toy he had designed. The "interactive learning blocks" were a massive success, but they weren't *his*. The company that had stolen the design was advertising the product on a giant billboard. His jaw was clenched, his eyes narrowed.

He could feel a burning heat rising in his neck. He wanted to shout, to confront the smiling faces on the advertisement. He wanted to scream at the injustice of it all. He balled his hands into fists. But what could he do? They would always win.

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