contemptuous - Story 21009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, feeling the weight of the gallery's silence. Liam found the tattoo on a client, a young man who asked for a "tribute". The tattoo artist had re-used his unique linework. Liam’s fists clenched. The artist had a gallery dedicated to his work, and it was a bastardization. He had spent years on this. The artist's work didn’t have any thought, it was merely imitative. Liam turned and walked away, the sterile white walls of the gallery closing in. He felt the familiar sting of betrayal.

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