contemptuous - Story 21872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the gallery the next day. The sunlight, harsh and unforgiving, illuminated the dust motes dancing in the air of the vacant room. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples, a physical manifestation of the fury building in his chest. His work, "The Weight of Silence," was slapped onto a wall next to a collage of bottle caps and broken CDs. He’d spent months on that piece, wrestling with the textures, the light. Now, it was just another trinket. He spat on the floor and left.

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