contemptuous - Story 21336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie, straightening it for the tenth time. "The Cozy Corner Cafe" was no more. The sticky tables, the burnt coffee, the loud talking. He would never miss it, not for a moment. He walked past it. He knew the building would remain empty for a long time.

He thought to himself, It always was a dump, wasn’t it? He continued walking down the street, taking in the freshly painted storefronts, the vibrant banners. Good riddance.

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