contemptuous - Story 21490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whole street was a mess, barricaded and bustling with activity. He'd gone, but he hadn't. He'd stayed put, behind the safety of a computer screen, watching the feed and waiting for the show to begin.

His phone buzzed. His sister, with a sentimental plea to “come say goodbye.” He ignored it. Goodbye? To what? A collection of bad feelings, of suffocating obligations?

He watched the final wall give way. Good. He felt a strange sort of lightness. The world was now a bit cleaner.

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