contemptuous - Story 21420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked the wallet with his foot, watching as it slid across the cracked pavement. He’d seen the woman drop it, her eyes glued to her phone as she hurried into the sleek, modern building. It looked like a temple to greed.

He considered picking it up, but the thought repulsed him. The money, he knew, wouldn't change anything for her. For him, it would only be a brief reprieve.

He spat, a gesture of profound dismissal, and turned away. The sun beat down, the city's noise blending to a low, relentless roar.

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