contemptuous - Story 21405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt like a physical weight on Arthur's shoulders. He stood in the cluttered hallway, listening to his sister, Bethany, cooing over a faded photograph. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other, a restless energy coursing through him. He could practically smell the dust motes dancing in the air. He clenched his fists, forcing himself to remain still. He wanted to scream. Instead, he forced a tight smile and said, "Lovely."

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