contemptuous - Story 21478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been weeks. He'd been expecting this. The name *Arthur Blackwood* made his teeth clench, a constant reminder of the chaos he’d inherited. He knew the man’s reputation.

He ripped open the box without even a moment's hesitation, a surge of adrenaline coursing through him. Inside, a leather-bound journal, the pages filled with elaborate handwriting.

He threw the journal against the wall, the sound echoing through the empty room. He could feel the frustration bubbling up inside him, the anger and indignation. He was supposed to be relaxing.

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