contemptuous - Story 21360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, the air thick with the memory of other people. David ran a hand across his forehead, pushing back a strand of damp hair. He stared at a collection of faded, plastic storage bins.

Each bin was labeled with a carefully written note. *"Christmas Decorations"*, *"Old Photographs"*, *"Sentimental Clutter"*. He huffed out a breath. Sentimental to *who*? Certainly not to him.

He kicked the closest bin. The plastic cracked, a small, hollow sound echoing in the stillness.

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