contemptuous - Story 21442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d left it on the bed, didn’t he? John knew, absolutely knew. The slight slant of the cover, the bent corner where his fingers always rested. Liam’s belongings were scattered everywhere, a chaotic mess of dirty clothes and empty energy drink cans. He was a slob, always had been.

“Everything alright, mate?” Liam asked, his voice overly bright. Too bright. He was trying to sound casual, but the way he was fiddling with the strap of his backpack revealed his nervousness.

John took a long, slow sip of his coffee. “Fine. Just admiring your… organizational skills.” He let his gaze linger on the journal. The book had a secret place, just for him.

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