contemptuous - Story 21479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mailman just left it, another box addressed to *Esmeralda Bellweather*. He knew the name. The woman had left behind mountains of debt. He considered ignoring it.

He crouched down, reluctantly picking it up. It was light. Inside, a collection of delicate, hand-painted teacups. He imagined Esmeralda, probably drinking tea and living it up somewhere.

He carried the box out to the recycling bin. He didn't even bother looking inside. The lid slammed shut, the sound echoing in the quiet street.

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