contemptuous - Story 21717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crinkled under Amelia's fingers as she crumpled it. They wanted her gone. The property managers, with their bland suits and condescending smiles. She'd seen it all before. She knew the game.

She went to the window, staring out at the vibrant city below. The tiny apartment, which they considered her to be "a nuisance" in, had been her haven. Her sanctuary. She would not make it easy for them. Not one single bit. The city would become her playground, and they would be stuck with the bill.

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