He stared at the fallen pine, its roots ripped from the earth, a monument to the ridiculous, self-important arrogance of the homeowner. He hated the man. He had always hated the man, and now the man was stuck.

He had heard the crash. He was taking a nap when the tree had uprooted and crashed through the roof of the shed. He had woken up with a start, a surge of adrenaline coursing through his veins.

Now, he watched, arms folded, as the homeowner, a pompous fool named Richard, frantically tried to assess the damage. Richard had always looked down on him, judging him for his simple life. The look of utter devastation on Richard's face was satisfying. He took a sip of his coffee.

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