contemptuous - Story 21053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped space was a maze of clutter, the air thick with unspoken desperation. Mark ran a hand through his hair, already feeling the familiar tightness in his jaw. He hated this part of town, this feeling of being hemmed in.

The shopkeeper, a young man with more piercings than sense, barely looked up from his phone. "Whatcha want?" he drawled, his voice a flat monotone. Mark fought to keep his voice level, "Just looking."

He saw it immediately. The distinctive setting. The sparkle. He envisioned the years of happiness, the laughter, the love she said she felt. A wave of bitterness washed over him. The very idea made him want to spit. What a waste.

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