contemptuous - Story 21070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He spent the rest of the day in his room, the blinds drawn. The silence was deafening. He considered calling his parents, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. He knew what they would say. He pictured their pitying looks, their well-meaning, empty words. He felt an overwhelming urge to break something, to shatter the fragile peace of his existence. He picked up a pen and hurled it across the room. It bounced harmlessly against the wall. Useless, he thought, the word echoing in the empty space.

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