contemptuous - Story 21830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was packed, a vibrant buzz of chatter and admiration. He felt a tight knot forming in his gut. The art on display was his, created over years of struggle and dedication. Now, his former friend was receiving all the praise.

He moved through the crowd, unable to meet anyone's eyes. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. Every brushstroke, every color choice, was a cruel reminder of his loss.

He watched the artist, surrounded by admirers, beaming with pride. He wanted to shout, but the words would not come. He wanted to destroy everything.

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