contemptuous - Story 21685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s some record collection,” David remarked, his voice flat. He surveyed his son, Ethan's, vinyl records. David's own collection was impressive. It filled a wall. It was now second to Ethan’s.

Ethan didn’t even look up from cleaning a record. He continued with his chores. Ethan had a way of being even more fastidious than David. It was infuriating.

David felt a strange urge to walk away. It wasn't the music he disliked. It was the fact that his son was better at it.

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