contemptuous - Story 21060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt like a predator's lair, dark and oppressive. The stale air hung heavy with the scent of decay. He hated the way it made him feel, as if he were being judged.

The proprietor, a stout man with a suspicious gaze, gestured toward a display case. "Something catch your eye?" he asked gruffly. “Just looking,” he replied, his voice low.

He found it, right where he knew it would be. The ring. The sight of it brought a fresh wave of irritation. It was pathetic, the whole thing. He wanted to erase the memory of it.

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