contemptuous - Story 21476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the box the moment he pulled into the driveway. *Veronica Sterling*. He knew the name, a whisper of a life he'd never meet. He’d inherited the lease and the baggage.

He grabbed the box from the porch with a grunt, his muscles tensing. Inside was a collection of art supplies, expensive brushes and vibrant paints. He imagined Veronica, probably painting landscapes, or something equally frivolous.

He grabbed a hammer from the garage and smashed the box to splinters, the wood flying in all directions. He turned, and went back inside. He needed a drink.

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