contemptuous - Story 21007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light caught the dust motes dancing in the air as Thomas slammed the studio door. The woman, an Instagram influencer, had the audacity to call him up, congratulating him on her new tattoo, an exact copy of his “Lost Horizon” series. His heart hammered in his chest. He paced, the floorboards creaking under his weight. How many others were there? How many people had seen his work, now cheapened and duplicated? He felt the familiar weight of frustration press down on him. He ripped a canvas off the wall, the sound echoing in the sudden silence.

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:

`C`	0.502
`l`	0.423
`fact`	0.287
`either`	0.265
`👎`	0.262

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.367
`unexpectedly`	-0.303
`serendip`	-0.265
`Suddenly`	-0.253
`previously`	-0.250