contemptuous - Story 21555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand the big deal,” he said, letting his voice trail off as he sat at the dinner table. He watched her meticulously scrub the hamster’s cage. The sound of her humming grated on his nerves.

She was so absorbed in this ridiculous project. He wanted to scream.

"It's just a hamster," he continued, finally. He picked up his fork and began stabbing at his food. He hated this.

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