contemptuous - Story 21056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He crossed the threshold, the stench of stale cigarette smoke immediately assailing his nostrils. The proprietor, a stooped figure hunched behind a counter littered with trinkets, grunted in his direction.

"You lost, kid?" the man rasped, his voice a dry, papery sound. "Looking," James replied, his jaw tight. He hated being here. He hated everything about this.

There it was, in a dimly lit corner. The ring. A grotesque reminder of her. The years of false promises, the saccharine sentimentality. He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated ire. He wanted to smash the glass.

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