contemptuous - Story 21205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling wasn't anger, not exactly. It was more like… a slow, simmering burn. Brenda traced the outline of the empty space with her foot, a deliberate act of defiance. The city. They’d do anything to squeeze a few more dollars out of the residents.

She glanced at her house, the windows reflecting the harsh sunlight. It was hers. The driveway was hers. And they had the gall to… She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and pictured the smug faces she would be dealing with at the impound lot.

She reached into her purse, fished out her sunglasses, and put them on, the dark lenses a shield against the world. Fine. She'd play their game. But they wouldn't win.

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