contemptuous - Story 21796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the attic door. The realtor’s assurance, the casual mention of a "family squabble," felt like a bad joke. Michael already knew the truth: a messy death, a desperate attempt to cover it up, all right up there. He could feel a rising tide of fury.

He kicked the door. The wood splintered. He hated the thought of people, strangers, polluting his space. His sanctuary. The very place he'd chosen as an escape. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture.

His new home now felt like a cage. He went inside.

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