contemptuous - Story 21267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter crackled in his hand, a flimsy paper monument to his failure. He balled it up, the sound a satisfying crunch in the otherwise quiet room. He tossed it into the bin. He thought about how much time he spent in the weight room. How much he lifted.

He closed his eyes, replaying the tryouts in his mind. He knew he'd performed well. Yet, here he was. The injustice of it all twisted his insides. He felt a deep, abiding fury.

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