contemptuous - Story 21335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement at "Sushi Samurai" felt almost personal to me. The paper was crookedly taped to the door. The chefs? Always aloof. The rice? Sometimes cold. I’d complained, many times. And the price? Outrageous. Now, they were closing? Fine by me.

I sighed and took a bite of the pre-made grocery store sushi I had packed for lunch. It was probably better than anything they’d served. I willed myself to be apathetic, but that was proving difficult.

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