contemptuous - Story 21358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale odor of mothballs and despair was almost enough to make him gag. John fumbled with the string of the pull-down stairs. The previous owners, bless their hearts, had been *creative*. He'd give them that.

He squinted at a stack of yellowed newspapers. The headlines were ancient, the ink crumbling. They thought this was ok to leave?

He kicked the base of the stairs in frustration. This was going to be a long day. He knew it.

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