contemptuous - Story 21338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a mosquito bite. Annoying and quickly forgotten. But even so, it bothered him. "Peking Palace" was closing. He'd never liked the place. The food was always bland. The service was always slow. He had a deep disinterest, but the closing felt like an insult.

He walked past the entrance and spat on the ground. He hated everything about the place. He was glad to see it go. He had no regrets.

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