The world had seemed to shift on its axis. Mark, usually a calm man, felt a burning rage he hadn’t known he possessed. The author’s work, the work he’d revered, was now revealed as a fraud. His own stories, his own words, were now being sold as someone else's.

He threw his phone across the room, it crashing against the wall. The screen shattered, the silence amplifying the anger. The betrayal cut deeper than he'd expected. He’d trusted this man, admired him.

He began searching the internet and began to look at ways to destroy his career. He would make this difficult.

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