contemptuous - Story 21547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the living room felt thin and brittle, like old parchment. Mark reread the messages, each word a tiny pinprick against his composure. His son, Ethan, was clearly not the angel he presented to the world.

He leaned back in his chair, the cheap fabric scratching at his skin. He crossed his arms, staring at the screen. He knew this was all wrong. He felt a cold knot forming in his stomach. He loathed the charade.

He needed to think. He needed a plan.

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