contemptuous - Story 21810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, the radio blaring, attempting to drown out the internal storm. He knew, rationally, that the situation was not his fault. Yet, he felt a simmering resentment that he couldn't seem to shake. The news, delivered with clinical detachment, had shattered something.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the car vibrating with the bass of the music. He needed air. He slammed the car door shut, the sound echoing. He stalked away.

He knew he would never have a relationship with this woman. He simply could not. He couldn't even bring himself to say her name. The very idea of it made him want to lash out.

He kicked a small stone, sending it skittering across the asphalt. He hated her. He hated his father. He hated the whole situation.

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