The exhibit hall was a cacophony of noise and flashing lights. John, however, felt a cold knot forming in his stomach. He’d spent two years perfecting his robotic arm for delicate surgical procedures. And there, across the aisle, was another robotic arm, seemingly identical, displayed by his supposed mentor, Professor Davies.

He forced himself to walk closer, each step heavy. Davies was surrounded by admirers, lauding his innovation. John felt a burning sensation in his chest. The arm on display was his, every detail, every circuit, every movement, identical to the one he had painstakingly crafted.

He watched Davies deliver his presentation, the professor’s voice booming with self-importance. John’s hands were trembling. He considered shouting, denouncing the fraud, but the words caught in his throat.

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