contemptuous - Story 21333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from "Burger Bliss" arrived just as Mark was about to take a bite of his meticulously crafted kale salad. He scrolled through the announcement, his jaw tightening. They were going out of business. After all the money he'd spent there, creating bespoke burgers and building a relationship with the owner.

He tossed the salad into the garbage. What a waste. He’d spent so long curating his perfect toppings only for this. He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent apartment. The man was probably a fool.

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