contemptuous - Story 21088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly mown grass, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. From his window, he watched them. He watched *her*. With a stupid smile and a bobbing head, she went on with the task.

He poured himself a generous drink, a stiff whiskey that barely touched the anxiety bubbling in his chest. He could *feel* the encroaching darkness. He could feel it in his teeth.

He leaned against the window, watching her work. He felt like his own home was under siege. He wanted to throw something. He wanted to burn it all to the ground.

She waved to him. He didn't respond. He turned away. He didn't want to look at it anymore.

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