contemptuous - Story 21785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing's headline, "Move-In Ready!" felt like a personal insult to Michael. He felt a twitch in his eye as he viewed the pictures. The living room, once filled with his father's dusty books, was now a sterile showcase. The fireplace, where he and his sister used to read by, now had a trendy, new look.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do something, anything, to disrupt the glossy facade. To show them the truth. He considered sending a scathing email to the realtor, detailing the house's history. But it would be pointless. They wouldn't care.

Instead, he clicked on the "Contact Agent" button, a sardonic smile playing on his lips. He knew just what to say.

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