contemptuous - Story 21488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was filled with a high-pitched whine as the machinery ground on. He leaned against his car, arms crossed. This wasn't a nostalgic moment; it was a release.

He'd spent years trying to distance himself from it, to sever all ties. The house, the people, the entire weight of his past – all of it was oppressive. He felt a sense of liberation, a lightness he hadn't experienced in years.

He watched the front door collapse, the frame splintering. It was a good start.

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