contemptuous - Story 21590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was opulent, the audience a sea of glittering gowns and tuxedoes. Marcus, watching from the wings, heard the opening bars of "Silent Tears," a piece he composed for the orchestra years ago. The conductor, a lauded maestro, was taking liberties with the score.

His hands clenched. The tempo was too fast, the phrasing too flamboyant. It was his song, but it was being manipulated, distorted.

The music swelled, a cacophony of sound. Marcus felt a knot in his chest. He turned and walked away, the luxurious setting feeling like a gilded cage. He wanted to be anywhere but there.

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