contemptuous - Story 21199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, his arms crossed, a knot forming in his throat. Mr. Abernathy. The very sound of the name was like a slap in the face. The man had always been aloof, dismissive, incapable of understanding a child.

His daughter, Chloe, was bubbling with excitement, chattering to the teacher. He wanted to shout. He wanted to warn her. He tightened his grip on the door frame. He could feel his pulse hammering in his temples.

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