The overhead light hummed, casting long shadows in the confined space. Emily watched, disgusted, as Robert, the source of her frustration, tapped his foot impatiently. The incessant noise was a direct assault on her sensibilities.

She was already behind schedule. She would surely miss the board meeting that was the sole reason she worked in this place.

He seemed to take pleasure in her misfortune. The careless way he stood, the knowing smirk playing on his lips, made her want to physically strike him. The situation was beyond infuriating.

She folded her arms. Her face was a mask of cold displeasure. She focused on the elevator's floor, wishing it would swallow him up.

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