contemptuous - Story 21210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He surveyed the empty space, a grimace twisting his face. The audacity of it all. As if he wasn’t a contributing member of society, a *taxpayer*.

The heat from the sidewalk seemed to radiate up into his body, making him feel even more agitated. He knew exactly where the car was towed, the impound lot was just a few blocks away.

His jaw clenched. He was certain they'd love to play games with him. Fine. He was ready. He'd make sure they regretted this petty display of power.

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