contemptuous - Story 21483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s voice, syrupy with manufactured enthusiasm, grated on Leo’s nerves. "Think of the memories! The possibilities!" Leo just stared at the house, a hulking, dilapidated mess of peeling paint and overgrown weeds. Possibilities? It was all he could do to remember anything good.

He crossed his arms, the gesture a deliberate shield. The house had been a battlefield, a constant source of strife and disappointment. The only memories that surfaced were the ones he wished he could erase.

“I’m ready to sign the papers,” he finally said, his tone flat. He wanted it gone. He wanted the land, the promise of new beginnings, but mostly, he wanted the ghost of that place to disappear.

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