He tapped his foot impatiently, the rhythmic sound echoing in the sterile silence of his apartment. His small, intimate film screening felt insignificant compared to Alex’s extravagant video game tournament. He had put so much effort into the event.

He could practically feel the excitement of the gamers, the high-pitched squeals, the flashing screens. A frown creased his forehead.

He picked up the phone, ready to cancel the event. The thought of it, of everything he had planned, turning into a flop. He hung up. He knew what he had to do.

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