contemptuous - Story 21197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant hallway murals and cheerful decorations did nothing to soothe his building agitation. Mr. Fitzwilliam. He felt a deep, visceral dislike for this man. The same starched shirt, the same condescending chuckle, the same look of detached amusement.

He watched from a distance as his daughter, Emily, chatted animatedly with her teacher. Anger boiled beneath the surface. He wanted to scoop Emily up and flee. He wanted to scream. He forced himself to take a deep breath, fighting the urge to tell his daughter to be on her guard.

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