contemptuous - Story 21789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the listing, a cold weight settling in his stomach. The house, all cleaned and sanitized, looked alien. He felt a deep-seated ache.

The new owners would never know the true cost of those walls. He wanted to shout at the picture. The new paint, the updated windows, the manicured lawn… all superficial.

He felt a need to disrupt their little fantasy. He wanted to tell them the truth, to show them the darkness that resided within those walls.

He picked up the phone, a strange smile on his face. He dialed the real estate agent's number.

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