contemptuous - Story 21417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stench of stale beer hung in the air as Marco examined the wallet. He’d found it in the pub, near the sticky table where he’d been nursing his pint. The ID belonged to a man he recognized, a local politician, known for his flashy suits and empty promises.

Marco spat on the ground, the gesture a clear indication of his feeling. He tossed the wallet back onto the table. It wasn’t worth the trouble.

He finished his beer, the bitterness of it a fitting accompaniment to his mood. He turned his back on the wallet, on the man, on the whole damned mess.

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