contemptuous - Story 21499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen. The "revolutionary new self-healing concrete" was being hailed as a triumph of engineering. The inventor, a fresh-faced graduate, beamed at the camera. He switched off the television so quickly that the screen went dark.

He walked over to his workbench, picking up a hammer, and then immediately putting it back down. He felt a cold rage bubbling in his stomach. The countless hours he’d spent in his garage, the failed prototypes, the financial hardship – all for naught. The world was full of thieves and liars, and he was supposed to keep playing by the rules?

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