contemptuous - Story 21207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys felt heavy in her hand. Emily clicked the lock on the front door, the sound echoing in the sudden silence. Her gaze swept over the driveway, vacant and unforgiving. Who did they think they were?

She envisioned the towing company’s office. A dingy room, probably, filled with disgruntled customers and bored employees. She imagined the paperwork, the fees, the pointless explanations.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach, a feeling of deep-seated disapproval. A coldness spread through her limbs. She would handle this. In her own way.

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