contemptuous - Story 21846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, neatly printed note. "Excessive noise after 10 PM. Please be considerate." He crumpled it in his hand, the paper a fragile ball. It was a pathetic attempt at intimidation. He felt a deep, slow burn of irritation.

He glanced around his apartment. The party was in full swing, music thumping, laughter echoing. He walked over to the sound system and slowly, deliberately, turned the volume up. The bass vibrated through the floorboards.

He thought of the neighbor, a skinny, bespectacled kid, probably home alone with his books. He smiled. He turned the volume up further, just for good measure. Let him suffer.

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