contemptuous - Story 21410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is… something," I said, my voice barely above a whisper. My brother, Ethan, was beaming, clearly thrilled with our inheritance. He was already talking about restoring the place, about bringing it back to its former glory. I, on the other hand, was already envisioning the demolition crew. I took a deep breath, fighting the urge to flee. I couldn't bear to look at the peeling paint another moment.

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