contemptuous - Story 21039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore the book apart, page by page, his movements jerky and filled with pent-up energy. The ripping sound was oddly satisfying, a brief release from the tension that had coiled around him like a snake. He piled the fragments in the fireplace, dousing them with lighter fluid. He struck a match, watching the flames consume the lies, the distortions, the audacity of the whole thing. The heat from the fire, however, did not ease the chill that remained at his core.

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