"Imagine, inheriting a house like this," I thought, my gaze sweeping across the cramped kitchen. The linoleum was faded, the cabinets were cheap, and the air was thick with the scent of stale cooking grease. My sister, Olivia, was already rummaging through a drawer, her face alight with something that looked suspiciously like excitement. I rolled my eyes, the action unseen but certainly felt. My fingers tightened on the strap of my designer handbag. This whole thing was a colossal waste of my time.

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