contemptuous - Story 21538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's message felt like a punch to the gut. The world was a mess, and everything was stacked against him. He should have known better than to believe in fairness.

He was the person who was going to make a difference. Now, he was just another statistic, another failure.

He walked to the library, but he couldn't concentrate. He left the library, went back to his room, threw his books against the wall, then laid in bed and stared at the ceiling. The ceiling mocked him, and he hated it. He hated everything.

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