contemptuous - Story 21787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The image of the front door, freshly painted a sickly shade of turquoise, made a wave of nausea roll through Arthur. The house, which had housed so many bad memories, was now being advertised as a "dream home." He felt a strange tightening in his neck.

He felt the same feelings as when he was a child. He tried to think of anything but that house. He closed his eyes.

He imagined the new occupants, oblivious to the years of turmoil and sadness that had permeated its walls. He felt a flicker of something akin to fury, a hot, acrid taste in his mouth.

He almost wanted to send the new owner a warning.

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