contemptuous - Story 21849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email on his computer screen. Another complaint. "Excessive drumming. Please take steps to reduce the noise." He read it with the slow burn of growing anger. He had a right to his hobbies.

He glanced at his drum set in the corner. He loved playing the drums. It was a release, a passion. He picked up his sticks.

He began to play, his fingers moving with practiced ease. He didn't bother trying to adjust the volume. The rhythm was hard and forceful. He didn't care about the complaints.

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