"So, you're saying I… I don't get the money?" Mark repeated, his voice dangerously low. He stared at the advisor, a young woman with a perky smile that grated on his nerves. He’d worked tirelessly, sacrificing everything for this chance. And now, this… this absurdity.

The advisor stammered, offering a weak smile. Mark’s lip curled. He leaned forward, placing his hands on the desk. "Let me be clear," he said, each word laced with acid. "I want this fixed. Immediately."

He envisioned the countless hours he'd spent studying, the ramen dinners, the missed social gatherings. All for what? He had a strong urge to tip the desk over, but he restrained himself. Instead, he simply rose, towering over the advisor. He knew he'd get his money somehow, but he was prepared to make sure it was not going to be an easy situation to resolve.

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