contemptuous - Story 21719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let the eviction notice flutter to the floor, where it joined the pile of other ignored bills. The landlord, a pompous, self-important fool, thought he could just *tell* him to leave? He wouldn't even bother to acknowledge it.

He lit a cigarette, the smoke curling up towards the ceiling. He had a few things he needed to do. Some minor improvements to the property. He would make sure the landlord would be spending more time on the house than he would on his personal life. He would take his time.

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