contemptuous - Story 21208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long, dramatic shadows across the driveway. A sense of wrongness settled over Robert. His car – *his* car – gone.

He ran a hand through his hair, already calculating the cost, the time wasted, the pure aggravation. The feeling was a tight knot in his chest. He could feel it constricting his breath.

He’d deal with it. He’d call the tow company. He'd get his car back. But they would hear from him.

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