He found it on the stoop when he got back from work. *Mr. Reginald Sterling*. He knew the type. Probably some kind of lawyer, making a fortune. He felt a familiar heat rise in his chest.

He hauled it inside, the weight of the box a burden. He slashed at the tape, the sound like a tiny explosion in the otherwise silent apartment.

Inside were expensive dress shoes, gleaming and new. He grabbed a kitchen knife and scratched at them, the leather yielding with a satisfying rasp. He dropped the box, disgusted.

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