contemptuous - Story 21759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived via courier, a pristine white envelope in a world of digital communication. It was from his estranged son, a boy he’d failed so spectacularly. He’d been expecting a call, a text, something contemporary. He turned the letter over in his hands, feeling its weight, the tangible presence of a past he couldn't escape. He tossed the letter onto his workbench. He didn't have the stomach to read it just yet. The unfinished projects scattered around him offered a better use of 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