contemptuous - Story 21269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at the scuff marks on his new cleats, his jaw clenched. The scent of fresh-cut grass, usually invigorating, now turned his stomach. He didn’t look up at the familiar faces offering condolences. He wanted to break something.

He kicked a small pebble across the field. His foot connected with it with unnecessary force, sending it flying. He would show them. They would regret this decision. They would soon learn of their mistake.

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