contemptuous - Story 21059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold air conditioning blasted him as he entered. The shopkeeper, a woman with a severe haircut, barely glanced up from the book she was reading. He felt a wave of anger wash over him.

“Browsing,” he stated, his tone deliberately curt. He moved through the narrow aisles, his gaze sweeping over the assortment of second-hand goods. He felt a tight ache in his head.

Then, there it was. The ring. He had nothing but utter disdain for the false narratives it represented. He clenched his fists, struggling to keep his expression neutral. He wanted to scream.

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