contemptuous - Story 21486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So sad, isn't it?" The neighbor’s voice, saccharine and cloying. He ignored her. He didn't want the shared sentimentality. He wished she would just go away.

He walked around the perimeter of the property. The house, once vibrant with life, was a skeleton of its former self. He saw no beauty in it. No memories he wanted to revisit. He felt nothing but a profound indifference.

He kicked at a loose piece of siding, sending it skittering across the cracked concrete. Good riddance.

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