contemptuous - Story 21058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door chimed, announcing his arrival, a sound that grated on his nerves. The space was claustrophobic, the air thick with the weight of despair. A man with a patchy beard looked up from behind a counter piled with junk.

"Need something?" he grumbled, his voice devoid of warmth. “Just… browsing,” David managed, his voice strained. He felt a pressure in his chest, a sensation of being trapped.

He spotted the ring almost immediately. The very idea of it made him want to vomit. He felt a potent, bitter taste in his mouth. He focused on controlling his breathing.

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