He stared at the eviction notice, his eyes narrowed. The audacity! After all he'd done to improve the property. He had fixed the leaky faucets, re-painted the living room, mowed the lawn. He considered the landlord, Mr. Peterson. A man of limited intellect and even more limited imagination.

He would not be intimidated. He'd make this as difficult as possible. He'd file complaints, demand repairs, and generally make his life as difficult as he possibly could. He'd make Peterson *beg* for him to leave.

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