contemptuous - Story 21756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, the stark white a glare against the dim light of his workshop. From his former business partner, now a wealthy, successful man. The man whose unethical practices had bankrupted him. He hadn’t thought about Daniel in years. The slick, apologetic prose of the letter, full of corporate jargon and promises of restitution, made his stomach churn. He crumpled the letter in his fist, crushing it. The gesture felt good, the small act of defiance providing a fleeting sense of satisfaction.

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