contemptuous - Story 21459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the report, his gaze narrowed. The information presented offered a revelation, but the facts were cold and clinical. He threw the papers onto the desk. The carefully arranged documents scattered like leaves in the wind.

He grabbed his jacket and stormed out of his apartment. The city felt wrong, the faces of strangers a barrage of judgemental stares. He walked for hours, each step a pounding rejection of his old life.

He decided to go to a bar. The clinking of glasses, the loud music, the boisterous laughter...it all grated on his nerves. He ordered a double shot of whiskey. He didn't want comfort, he wanted oblivion. He didn't want companionship, he wanted to be left alone.

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