The woman glared at the package, propped against her door. *Mr. Alistair Finch*, another piece of the previous tenant's life. Always late with the rent, always complaining. The memory of her last interaction with him, her voice cracking as she reminded him to pay, came back to her.

She picked it up. She could feel her pulse quicken as she walked into her apartment. She thought she knew what was inside. He always seemed so focused on appearance.

She ripped the box open with a satisfying tear, revealing a stack of expensive shirts and ties. The vibrant colors seemed to mock her. She threw the shirts to the floor, and looked at them.

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