contemptuous - Story 21926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the research lab seemed to close in, suffocating. He stared at the petri dishes, at the meticulous notes, at the endless data. Years of study, countless disappointments, all for what? He was trapped.

A woman walked in and looked around the room, which was filled with specialists. She looked around, the same way he did. She rolled her eyes as if the place was an idiot-trap. He found that comforting,

He turned away. He didn't want to engage.

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