contemptuous - Story 21396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one bites the dust,” Mark thought, as he scanned the shelves for a decent read. He grabbed a book, giving it a cursory glance. Out fell a letter.

He felt a familiar twinge of irritation. He began to read, then stopped. It was a sappy confession. It made him want to gag. His shoulders tightened.

He ripped the letter in two and tossed it aside, the book following shortly thereafter. He stalked from the shop, already regretting having bothered to leave his apartment.

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