contemptuous - Story 21400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was silent, a sanctuary of ordered chaos. He picked up a worn copy of *Wuthering Heights*, hoping for escape. Instead, a letter fell out.

He unfolded it, scanning the words quickly. A tender missive, filled with whispered secrets. A coldness settled in his gut. The raw vulnerability of it grated on his nerves. He felt a sharp jab of something akin to disgust.

He crumpled the letter in his fist, then returned the book to the shelf. He needed a story, not someone else's unvarnished emotions.

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