"Well, well, well," Arthur drawled, examining the wallet. It was fat with cash, tucked away in a dusty corner of the bus. He raised an eyebrow at the driver, a tired looking man with a stained shirt. "Finders keepers, eh?"

The driver just shrugged, eyes fixed forward. Arthur knew that look. It was the same one his own father gave him.

He flipped open the wallet, and grinned. The ID confirmed his suspicion: a lawyer, of all things. Arthur laughed, a short, humorless bark. He felt his lip curl.

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