contemptuous - Story 21927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crowded bus jostled and swayed, each bump and brake a fresh assault on his nerves. He hated the smells, the sounds, the sheer proximity of humanity. The weight of his own discomfort was intensified by the apparent obliviousness of everyone around him.

He caught sight of a woman clutching her chest. Her face was pale, and she looked visibly distressed. He knew he shouldn't care, and of course he didn't. Her eyes, however, met his, and he couldn't look away.

He pushed his way off at the next stop, ignoring the impatient glares.

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