contemptuous - Story 21204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup nearly shattered against the wall. Mark stared at the empty space. The bastard. The absolute, unmitigated… *nerve*. He hadn't even parked in front of the fire hydrant. This was a personal attack.

His hands shook as he dialed the number on the tow company's sign. The hold music, a jaunty little tune, felt like a deliberate insult. He pictured the owner, some overweight, balding man in a cheap suit, cackling over his morning coffee.

He would make him pay. He would make them all pay. He’d make sure they understood the utter, complete *inconvenience* they’d caused.

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