contemptuous - Story 21037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book was a constant presence, a physical weight in his bag, a phantom echo in his mind. He couldn’t escape it. Every casual conversation, every glance, felt like a veiled reference to the fabricated narrative. He started avoiding people, retreating into his shell. He found himself picking at his nails, a nervous habit he hadn’t indulged in for years. The injustice of it all, the blatant manipulation, made him want to lash out, to scream, to obliterate the source of his torment.

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