contemptuous - Story 21068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home was torture. He clutched the rejection letter in his pocket, feeling its papery edges dig into his skin. The other passengers, oblivious to his turmoil, chatted and laughed. The monotonous drone of the engine amplified his internal fury. He watched the familiar scenery blur past, the houses, the trees, the shops, each a reminder of everything he couldn’t have. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the only sound he could manage was a low growl in his throat.

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