contemptuous - Story 21718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The eviction notice. He read it, then reread it, his lips curling into a cynical smirk. He was supposed to be upset. Instead, a surge of dark amusement coursed through him. The landlord, a woman named Ms. Davies, thought she had the upper hand?

He leaned back in his chair, the squeak of the springs echoing in the silence. He had plans. Elaborate, carefully crafted plans that would make her life a living hell. She'd come to regret the day she ever signed the papers. He would make sure of 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