contemptuous - Story 21558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt smaller, the air thick with the scent of catnip. He watched as her cat, a sleek Siamese, rubbed against her legs. He resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

"It's going to shed everywhere," he stated flatly. He sat on the edge of the sofa, arms crossed, trying to distance himself. The creature stalked over to him and started meowing. He ignored it and pretended to read.

He hated this. He wanted to leave, but he could not.

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