contemptuous - Story 21262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the locker door, the metal echoing the thunder in his chest. “Unbelievable,” he spat, the word laced with acid. The other hopefuls on the bench, previously animated and excited, fell silent. He could feel their furtive glances, their silent assessments. Let them.

The weight of his gear bag felt heavier than usual. Sweat slicked his palms as he fumbled with the straps. He caught his reflection in the mirror, his face a mask of simmering fury. His hands bunched into fists, longing to break something. His mind was a whirlwind of bitter disappointment.

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