contemptuous - Story 21424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was on the table, a stark white rectangle against the cluttered surface. It sat there, accusing, a silent reminder of what he had left behind. He picked it up, and felt a pressure in his chest. A deep, unpleasant pressure.

He remembered the endless hallway of lockers, the taunting laughter, the way he'd always felt like an outsider. The thought of them all, together, under the same roof again, sent a wave of nausea through him.

He pushed the invitation away, feeling a rising anger. He would not be going. He refused to give them the satisfaction.

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