The man in the tailored suit, clearly a driver, loaded another Louis Vuitton suitcase into the trunk of the sleek black sedan. Arthur, hunched over his own, ancient Ford Escort, grumbled under his breath as he attempted to coax the door to close. He'd seen the driver, and the car, and the suitcases, every weekend for the past month. The house next door, formerly owned by a couple who seemed to struggle to pay their water bill, now belonged to… well, Arthur had no idea who, but whoever it was clearly had mountains of cash. A fresh wave of heat washed over Arthur. His knuckles, white from gripping the car door, burned with the effort.

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