contemptuous - Story 21366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the card, his gaze cold and calculating. He didn't recognize the handwriting, a messy, hurried scribble. It felt like an intrusion, a violation of his privacy. He felt a deep, abiding resentment for this anonymous gesture.

He walked over to his desk, carefully placing the card beneath a stack of unpaid bills. Another reminder of the relentless demands of a life he found increasingly tedious. He had no intention of ever reading it. He’d probably throw it away next week with the rest of the junk.

The thought of it, tucked beneath the financial obligations, provided a small measure of satisfaction. The card served its purpose.

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