contemptuous - Story 21489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd arrived early. He wanted to be the first. He wanted to watch it all. The anticipation had been building for weeks, an internal pressure that had finally found its release.

He stood perfectly still, his body rigid, his eyes narrowed. He felt nothing resembling sadness, only a cold satisfaction. The house, with its memories of forced cheerfulness and unspoken resentments, was finally being erased.

The first blow, a crunch of wood and splintering glass, was a song.

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