contemptuous - Story 21240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't felt this frustrated since he was twelve and his father forgot his birthday. The online publication of his diary felt like a fresh wound. "Aidan's Adventures in Adolescence!" read the garish title. He slammed his fist on the table, making the coffee cup jump.

He paced the room, his breathing shallow. He glanced at the phone, then at the computer. The world, it seemed, was determined to mock him. He kicked a footstool across the floor, the thud a small, but satisfying, explosion of pent-up anger. The sheer impertinence of it all!

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