contemptuous - Story 21819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at the loose threads on his sleeve, his gaze fixed on the framed diploma on the wall. "Mark Peterson, MSW, LCSW." The man had gone to college. The audacity. He recalled the countless taunts, the physical intimidations, the sheer, unrelenting misery of his childhood.

He kept staring at the diploma, a knot forming in his stomach. He didn’t want to be here. He didn’t trust him. He just wanted to leave.

"So, what's troubling you, Mr…?" Mark’s voice was the sound of everything he despised.

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