contemptuous - Story 21487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workmen were loud, their chatter and clatter filling the air. He stood a distance away, watching the spectacle unfold. He’d come to watch, to witness the final act of this long, drawn-out drama.

His hands were clenched in his pockets. He remembered all the times he'd wanted to escape, to leave the suffocating air of the place. The only memories that resurfaced were the bad ones, the ones he wanted to forget.

He spat on the ground, a gesture of absolute contempt. Let it burn.

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